Answers to the questions you never quite dared ask about the space program, such as "what did they use for toilet facilities?" and "what would they do with all that 'end product' on a two year mission to Mars?" Roach boldly goes where very few women (or men, for that matter) have gone and asks the hard questions.
In addition to questions of physical logistics, she investigates the studies into what sort of person makes a good astronaut - and into the sociological differences which makes the selection process very different in the United States and Japan and Russia.
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