Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

by Mary Roach

Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much normalcy can people forgo? For how long, and what does it do to them?

Space doesn’t just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

Psychologists use the term “irrational antagonism” to describe what happens between people isolated together for more than about six weeks.

(Morse code has always been a tough medium for humor.)