pickIf you‘re reading this for insights on the Apollo 13 mission don‘t. However if you want fun stories about astronaut training from a guy with a laid back attitude this is worth a read. I loved the stories about the different places they traveled to study geology before going to the moon. I also appreciated his thoughts about climate change at the end too.
pickI love Mary Roach, and this book is no exception. Ostensibly about space, it‘s really about human physiology and how it is impacted by being in zero gravity, all packaged with her signature wit. I loved it!
so-soI finally finished my #BookSpin for this month. It wasn't bad, but it was gross much of the time and kind of ruined the glamour of being an astronaut. This book is not for the squeamish or those who would rather remain oblivious to the often disgusting logistics of putting humans into space.
My #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin for August both look great. I'm especially looking forward to reading Pyramids!
so-soWay more approachable than I thought it would be. A balance of feasibility from a technical standpoint as well as economic. Appreciate the emphasis on environmental, humanitarian considerations and justifications for developing space habitats.
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Let's do the time warp agaaiiinnn. 🥴 I keep forgetting when this book was published...and then there are phrases that make me pause....more than a decade before the Berlin Wall fell.
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Leaving aside the “intense application of fertilizer“ (in a segmented, engineered space environment the soil exhaustion and runoff presented on Earth might be managed better), multiple cropping sounds an awful lot like that age old Indigenous agricultural knowledge about the three sisters - plants that can grow together and also help with nitrogen levels in the soil - it's not new (even in the 70s) and they did it better! 😑
A handy metric. When harvesting a prospective energy source in an environmentally friendly manner is going to take more work and money than considering human civilizations in outer space, maybe it's time to go back to the drawing board!
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