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Packing for Mars

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Image via Wikipedia The Roach Stuff: Packing for Mars                                                   Author Mary Roach about her new book Packing For Mars : The Curious Science of Life in the Void. In part 1 of this 2-part… read more... Mary Roach Is Packing For Mars (scientificamerican.com) A new book from author Mary Roach is always a welcome sight, even more so when it delves into the human side of spaceflight. In Packing for Mars, Roach explores what should be familiar ground to “spaceniks” and comes up with all kinds of fresh, surprising material, delivered with her trademark wit. Trust me, you’ll want to read all about Enos the space chimp, fights between astronauts, and the icky details of various bodily functions in space. read more....
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Space Books

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Image via Wikipedia Welcome to Microcom's Space Bookshop. Click on one of the buttons below to enter one of Microcom's two regional bookshops. Microcom's Space Bookshop sells a vast range of book on all aspects of professional and amateur astronomy, astrophysics, space research, space exploration, human spaceflight, commercial space applications and space technology. For convenience, our books are divided into the following categories: Astronomy Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, nebulae, star clusters and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as the cosmic background radiation). It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the formation and development of the universe. Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences. Prehistoric cultures left behind astronomical artifact

Drift Into Outer Space

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Cars

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