Moon dust clings like dryer socks. Astronauts who stepped from the Lunar Module in gleaming white marshamllow suits returned a few hours later looking like miners. The Apollo 12 suits and long johns became so filthy that at one point, astronaut Jim Lovell told me, the crew "took off all their underwear and they were naked for half the way home." → #mary roach  #books  #space! 

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   Moon dust clings like dryer socks. Astronauts who stepped from the Lunar Module...gleaming...

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    More proof that EVERYTHING about Apollo 12 was funny.

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    (≧∇≦) hahahaha! (resists typing “n00dz plox”). But seriously, that stuff had to be annoying, especially in an...

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    HOTTT. That said, Jim Lovell wasn’t on Apollo 12. I wonder if Ms. Roach was talking about Al Bean? Or maybe Lovell’s...

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    OH MY GOD. mary roach, my favorite author, writing a book on SPACE? my heart might explode from happiness.

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    I’m reading Packing for Mars right now and you guys it is the most delightful thing ever to read all these things that...

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42. walex said: One of the design groups a year ahead of me designed a system for protecting moon based optical equipment from lunar regolith. It was really cool, funded by CSA and they published a paper from it. Not bad for a senior design project.
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    This book is next on my reading list.

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