Book Review - Packing for Mars

Author: Mary Roach

This was a deeply insightful collection of newspaper style articles that revealed some disgustingly informative insight to space travel. The downside being that I had to second guess a lot of my desire to ever leave our atmosphere.

While I live out of a trailer I can echo the realities of isolation that grows when you don’t have any external outlets. Roach points out how astronaughts often blame mission control which I can empathize with as normally when the tensions rise between Lauren and I we spend hours complaining about the truck or the trailer.

The difficulties of engineering for human waste, a standing shower, or edible food was ???. In my own experiance