Seriously, this is a NASA flight that is held for people to conduct zero gravity experiments.
Chapter 5: Unstowed – The author goes on an airplane (the Vomit Comet) where they fly parabolic arches (I think that’s the technical term) to simulate zero gravity. Also, what people first thought about the medical effects of space travel. Chapter 4: You Go First – Sending monkeys into space. 
Which is not like Pigs in Space (anyone know what I’m talking about?).
Chapter 3: Star Crazy – Roach interviews more Russian cosmonauts and talks about euphoria in space. Is there anyone you’d like to hang with in space? Personally, I like my alone time too much…I’d totally fail astronaut training (actually, I doubt I’d even make it past the origami). Chapter 2: Life in a Box – Isolation studies and how being cooped up together affects relationships. You know, because it illustrates patience and dexterity and good stuff like that. Chapter 1: He’s Smart but His Birds Are Sloppy – Roach observes the astronaut selection process in Japan, where they observe how well the candidates create origami. So suck it up, kiddies, ’cause that’s the approach I’m going to use again. 83īack when I wrote about Stiff, I took it chapter by chapter, which seemed to work quite well, although it does make for a long post. 
Everest, you may see that you actually weigh a tiny bit less, not counting the marbles you have obviously lost.” p. Everest, which makes me even more fan-girly: “If you carry a bathroom scale to the top of Mt. She also feels like I do about climbing Mt.
Not to mention plenty of potty humor (literally) and puke. Which might seem kind of tame compared to her previous subjects, but there are still cadavers and death and sex.
In her latest, Packing for Mars, she takes on outer space. She’s written about cadavers ( Stiff), death ( Spook) and sex ( Bonk). It was totally worth it, and I’d recommend that you read it, but I’m not so sure that you, Mr. FTC: I waited in line (for a very long time, in case you were wondering) to get this ARC when I was at BEA.
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