Space: The Final Pooping Frontier

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. Their other books include the Shivers the Pirate series and Jaclyn Hyde. As television writers, they have worked on projects for Nickelodeon, Netflix, Disney, Sesame Workshop, and Apple. They live in Los Angeles.

Lars Kenseth is a cartoonist based in Santa Monica, California, whose work has appeared in Barron’s, MAD, Esquire, and the New Yorker. A television writer by day, his credits include Chuck Deuce (Adult Swim) and Norm Macdonald Has a Show (Netflix). He’s a 2016 Sundance Institute Fellow and a long-suffering acolyte of the New York Jets.
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