Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
“At last, science for English majors! While Roach’s research is in-depth (she rides the vomit comet to experience weightlessness, conducts countless interviews with astronauts and scientists and studies the history of the space programs world-wide) it’s always (ironically?) down-to-earth. It’s also laugh-out-loud funny as she recounts the difficulties of eating, exercising, dressing and performing toilet …