Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars

“Enlightening . . . [this] eloquent memoir” about a woman’s experiences on a NASA research mission “is equal parts escape and comfort” ( Publishers Weekly ). In 2013, Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is, along with five fellow crew members, she embarked on NASA’s first HI-SEAS mission, a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai’i. For four months she lived, worked, and slept in an isolated geodesic dome, conducting a sleep study on her crew mates an