Red-Haired Ash Reads

This was a very interesting look at the US space program and how it is dealing or trying to deal with the everyday issues we take for granted, such as eating, washing, and urinating. While I did find this a bit dense at times, I still learned a bunch about the space program, current and past research projects that helped space programs, and things I never considered like food and nutrition. A few areas that this book covers that I never considered before is motion sickness, defecation in space, bone mass loss, and sex.

My only real issue outside of it being a little dense, was that the title is a bit misleading. Roach doesn’t talk specifics about the mission to Mars, the focus of the book is on living in space and past and current space missions and research.

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