Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

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Copyright © 2010 by Mary Roach

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Photograph credits: Frontmatter: © Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation 2010.

All rights reserved; Chapter 1: Image by Deirdre O’Dwyer; Chapter 2: Dmitri Kessel / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images; Chapter 3: Courtesy of NASA; Chapter 4: CBS Photo Archive / Hulton Archive / Getty Images; Chapter 5: Courtesy of NASA; Chapter 6: Image Source / Getty Images; Chapter 7: Courtesy of NASA; Chapter 8: Bettman/Corbis; Chapter 9: Ryan McVay / Riser / Getty Images; Chapter 10: Courtesy of NASA; Chapter 11: Hulton Archive / Getty Images; Chapter 12: Joanna McCarthy / Riser / Getty Images; Chapter 13: Hulton Archive / Getty Images; Chapter 14: Courtesy of NASA; Chapter 15: Courtesy of NASA; Chapter 16: Tim Flach / Stone+ / Getty Images

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Roach, Mary.

Packing for Mars: the curious science of life in the void / Mary Roach.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN: 978-0-393-07910-4

1. Space biology—Popular works. I. Title.

QH327.R63 2010

571.0919—dc22

2010017113

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