Dr. Fred Bortz

Review of Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void


by Mary Roach


(Norton, $25.95, 336 pages, August 2010)

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Physicist Fred Bortz is the author of 18 books for young readers, and has one in progress about human missions to Mars and beyond.