# Packing for Mars

**Author(s):** Mary Roach
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/packing-for-mars/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction
**Pages:** 334
**Publisher:** Norton
**Published:** Fri Jan 01 2010 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780393339918
**ISBN-10:** 1441876626
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/packing-for-mars

## Description

Space is devoid of the stuff humans need to live: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh veg, privacy, beer. How much can a person give up? What happens when you can't walk for a year? Is sex any fun in zero gravity? As Mary Roach discovers, it's possible to explore space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a 17,000-mile-per-hour crash test of NASA's space capsule, she takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of living in space.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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