by Mary Roach
Roach investigates the unglamorous side of human spaceflight: motion sickness, spacesuit plumbing, cadaver crash tests, food-freeze-drying experiments, and NASA's elaborate simulations of isolation. The book is a scientific and comic anatomy of what happens to the human body, mind, and bathroom when gravity disappears.
In this collection, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void references 3 other books.
It draws on Cosmos, The Double Helix and A Short History of Nearly Everything.
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Roach invokes Sagan's Cosmos and the broader astronomy-popularization tradition as the idealistic backdrop against which her bodily, bureaucratic reality of spaceflight is set.
Watson's The Double Helix is referenced as a parallel 'human story of science' narrative model, with Roach noting that space medicine has its own set of behind-the-scenes rivalries and personalities.
Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything is cited as a touchstone for Roach's strategy of rendering technical science through firsthand, oddball investigation.
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