Another book that I read just a short while ago is called Packing for Mars by Mary Roach, for some reason I brought this book in hardback, perhaps because it was on sale, who knows and it was some time ago...
Any way the book is a good read in that for me it was a fun read and it was entertaining and that's all I want for a book these days if I am reading for my pleasure.
It's a book about all those questions that you have had about what the astronauts have to put up with and all that sort of stuff.
Stuff like how you go to the toilet when there is no gravity to help the process, the fact that smells in space linger.
The most interesting thing that I learnt was that most astronauts suffer space sickness at some level and that it is something that can not be predicted on Earth before flight, so an unpleasant time is had not soon after orbit is achieved by most who have got there.
A book that is great to dip into and out of
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