Economics for Beginners

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Did you know that rain sometimes falls red? Or that the equivalent of one truckload of plastic is dumped in our oceans every minute?

A fun and informative book packed with 100 fascinating things to know about space, from how to escape a black hole to why astronauts learn wilderness survival skills

Where do people live in space? How do they get there? What's it like to work, eat and sleep in space?