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Stiff and bonk author5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Even in the advertisements for the event she was shunned. I had never heard of her – neither had most of the people attending the breakfast and it became a running joke. I had the opportunity to see Mary Roach speak at the author’s breakfast at BEA along with Jon Stewart, Condoleezza Rice & John Grisham. From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule (cadaver filling in for astronaut), Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth. As Mary Roach discovers, it’s possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. ![]() How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour? To answer these questions, space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. ![]() The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. ![]()
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