Space: The Final Pooping Frontier
By (Author) Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White
Illustrated by Lars Kenseth
St Martin's Press
St Martin's Press
10th December 2024
1st August 2024
United States
Children
Fiction
612.36
Hardback
40
Width 225mm, Height 285mm, Spine 9mm
374g
Discover the down and dirty scientific history of astronauts pooping in space in this funny and factual picture book. Everybody poops. So, what's an astronaut to do when hurtling through space with zero gravity and zero privacy Go boldly. This is a scientific history of pooping in space. From the earliest NASA missions up through the innovative results of their recent Space Poop Challenge design competition, we'll see the evolution of pooping on the final frontier. With fascinating facts and a few mishaps and discarded technologies along the way, we'll learn why it's so hard to deal with waste management in space.
Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White make their picture book debut with Space: The Final Pooping Frontier. As television writers, they have worked on projects for Sesame Workshop, Apple, and Netflix. They live in Los Angeles. Lars Kenseth is a cartoonist and writer whose work has appeared in Mad, Esquire, and The New Yorker. A TV writer by day, his credits include Chuck Deuce (Adult Swim) and Norm Macdonald Has a Show (Netflix). Kenseth is developing I Hate Mondays, an animated comedy for TBS. He lives in Santa Monica with his wife, Liz, and their two cats, Omelet and Honeybear.