On Feb. 14, Mary Roach, the best-selling author of Packing for Mars, headlines The Museum of Flight’s 21+ Valentine’s Day event, Mars Love Affair – An Evening with Mary Roach. “America’s funniest science writer” joins the Museum’s Space History Curator, Geoff Nunn, for a playful talk about the facts of life in space ranging from the disturbing to the delightful, from toilet training to zero-G sex; an audience Q and A follows the talk. The event will be in the Museum’s spectacular Great Gallery from 6:30 pm -9:30 pm and offers a cash bar with heavy appetizers. Tickets $80 General/$75 Museum Members.
Mars Love Affair VIP Experience
There will be an exclusive VIP reception with Mary Roach from 6-6:45 p.m. This intimate reception in the vintage Red Barn includes a complimentary glass of wine, heavy appetizers, and reserved seating for the fireside talk.
VIP Experience tickets $120.
Ticket add-ons:
Signed edition of Packing for Mars: $28
Build-your-own box of Seattle Chocolate Company chocolates: $25
Mary Roach
Mary Roach is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; GULP: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, and PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, and her new book FUZZ: When Nature Breaks the Law. Mary’s books have been published in 21 languages, and her second book, SPOOK, was a New York Times Notable Book. Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and the Journal of Clinical Anatomy, among others. She was a guest editor of the Best American Science and Nature Writing series and an Osher Fellow with the San Francisco Exploratorium and serves as an advisor for Orion and Undark magazines. She has been a finalist for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize and a winner of the American Engineering Societies’ Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which, let’s be honest, she was the sole entrant. More at www.maryroach.net
Founded in 1965, the independent, nonprofit Museum of Flight is one of the largest air and space museums in the world, annually serving over 600,000 visitors. The Museum’s collection includes more than 160 historically significant airplanes and spacecraft, from the first fighter plane (1914) to today’s 787 Dreamliner. Attractions at the 23-acre, 5-building Seattle campus include the original Boeing Company factory, the NASA Space Shuttle Trainer, Air Force One, Concorde, Lockheed Blackbird and Apollo Moon rockets. In addition to the Seattle campus adjacent to King County International Airport, the Museum also has its 3-acre Restoration Center and Reserve Collection at Paine Field in Everett (not currently open to the public).
With a foundation of aviation history, the Museum is also a hub of news and dialogue with leaders in the emerging field of private spaceflight ventures. The Museum’s aviation and space library and archives are the largest on the West Coast. More than 150,000 individuals are served annually by the Museum’s onsite and outreach educational programs. The Museum of Flight is accredited by the American Association of Museums, and is an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.
