Mary Roach Quote

Brave and anal: the ideal space explorer. Though you don’t find anal on any of those lists of recommended astronaut attributes. NASA doesn’t really use words like anal. Unless they have to.

Mary Roach

Brave and anal: the ideal space explorer. Though you don’t find anal on any of those lists of recommended astronaut attributes. NASA doesn’t really use words like anal. Unless they have to.

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About Mary Roach

Mary Roach (born March 20, 1959) is an American author specializing in popular science and humor. She has published seven New York Times bestsellers: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013), Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016), and Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (2021).