And, here’s a couple of NYT reviews of Packing for Mars: “Astral Bodies” and “All the Right Stuff and the Gross Stuff.”
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Friday, October 7, 2011
Sci Fri: Praying to Mecca while on the way to Mars
How would a pious Muslim pray to Mecca while on the way to Mars? Popular science writer Mary Roach explored the sensitive subject in her bestselling nonfiction book Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Norton 2010), which cracked the top ten on The New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestsellers list in the summer of 2010.
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Hmmm. That is a good question. Makes me want to read the book. It did it's job.
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