"Give me a napkin quick. There's a turd floating through the air."
-Mission Commander Thomas Stafford, Apollo 10 Transcript.
What is it like to go into space? Not as science fiction puts it, not as the glorified news stories that one reads from NASA. What is it really like? What are the little details that astronauts face? What is the yucky stuff they don't want to really talk about?
Mary Roach, author of such books as "Stiff", "Spook", and "Bonk" decided to find out the answers to these questions. The answers she came up will, according to AJ Jacobs author of "The Year of Living Biblically", make you "...cackle like an insane person."
Covering the mental fatigue, eating, drinking, and all the bodily functions in graphic, yet hilarious detail. You will even want to read the footnotes on Dolphins. Even if space flight isn't necessarily your thing, this book for general audiences will interest you from the first to the last page.
At the very least it will make you appreciate your floaters so much more.
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