Everyone wonders what it's really like in space, but very few of us have
ever had the chance to experience it firsthand. This captivating
collection brings together stories from dozens of international
astronauts - men and women who've actually been there - who have
returned with accounts of the sometimes weird, often funny, and
awe-inspiring sensations and realities of being in space.
Here are the real stories behind backward dreams, "moon face," the
tricks of sleeping in zero gravity and aiming your sneeze during a
spacewalk, the importance of packing hot sauce, and dozens of other
cosmic quirks and amazements that come with travel in and beyond low
Earth orbit.