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title: "Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by Kate Greene"
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slug: once-upon-a-time-i-lived-on-mars-book
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date: 2023-02-20T09:16:48-08:00
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date_finished: 2023-02-20T00:00:00-08:00
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categories: Books
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tags: [Memoirs, Space]
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series: 2023-books
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- name: cover
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src: cover.jpeg
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alt: "The cover of Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by Kate Greene, with a subtitle that reads 'Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth'"
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title:
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{{< figures/image name=cover >}}
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{{< tess >}} got me this book for Christmas 2022 on a whim at a local bookshop. It's a series of essays -- reflections
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and examinations -- of the author's time parcipating in one of NASA's Mars analog missions on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i. She is
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a lesbian and, as luck would have it, lived in the same part of town that Tess and I do! It was fun to read little
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anecdotes about her and her (ex) wife stopping in at shops that we frequent ourselves.
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I enjoyed reading about her experiences working with NASA in the context of an analog mission. It sounds like they went
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above and beyond to make the mission as close to a real Mars experience as possible, despite being firmly on Earth.
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Communication with mission control was artificially delayed 20 minutes, as it would be on Mars. Going outside required
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putting on bulky spacesuits. And participants were isolated together for six months.
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She also has several essays in which she reflected on the politics and cost of spaceflight, and what it means for humans
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to explore and exist in space.
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Support a local bookshop and get it from [Folio Books](https://www.foliosf.com/book/9781250796660). 🙂
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