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Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth
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Author:
Kate Greene
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
July 14, 2020
A former laser physicist turned writer documents her time as the crew writer and second-in-command on the first simulated Mars mission for the NASA-funded HI-SEAS project, weaving in meditations on her own life along with science.
What The Reviewers Say
... a fascinating book that resides in the space between science journalism and memoir.
Greene uses her experience in HI-SEAS as the basis for 12 essays exploring...questions about who gets to be an astronaut and why, how extreme circumstances alter our perceptions of time and space, the ethics of human research, the complicated relationship between public and private efforts to explore space, and the personal aftermath of such endeavors. She addresses them with wit, insight, compassion, and, ultimately, hope..
This engaging account will interest sf lovers, scientists, and dreamers who see the red planet in the night sky and wonder, what if..
Poet and science journalist Greene writes of isolation, deprivation, and boredom in this enlightening account of her sojourn in a habitat mimicking the conditions of a future Mars mission.
