SIDNEY BARRITT is a Roanoke physician. NASA and Congress have articulated the goal: We will send a mission to Mars. Some people are doing some serious thinking about the prospect, just as a great deal ...

Mary Roach has made a career out of pushing her audience’s squick button. She’s written books about corpses (Stiff), the afterlife (Spook), and sex (Bonk), and every time the topic ventures into ...

“A KITCHEN TABLE makes little sense without gravity, but all long-duration spacecraft have them,” pop science writer Mary Roach notes in Packing for Mars. “Crews want to sit around the kitchen table ...

He's smart but his birds are sloppy: Japan picks an astronaut -- Life in a box: the perilous psychology of isolation and confinement -- Star crazy: can space blow your mind? -- You go first: the ...

Hollins, Hunter. 2011. [Book review] "Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void." Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, 18, (3), 60–60.