What happens when you vomit during a space walk? The bestselling author of Stiff explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity

A truly funny look at the less majestic aspects of the space program.... Roach's writing is supremely accessible, but there s never a moment when you aren't aware of how much research she's done into unexplored reaches of space travel.

Mary Roach is the bestselling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife, and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.