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Oh, hey, y'all? My agent @sethasfishman has donated a critique of up to 25k to @worldbuilders

He gives very, very good feedback. Get in on this.

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@sethasfishman @worldbuilders There's a ton of other really cool stuff in the @worldbuilders charity auction.

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Want an ARC from OF NOBLE FAMILY, signed by me?

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Want to watch a spacewalk with me?
Let's start with some vocabulary.

APFR - articulated portable foot restraint.
ORU bag - Orbital Replacement Unit
crewlock bag - A bag used to haul equipment around on a spacewalk
A gap spanner is basically a cloth handrail that spans the gap between two handrails.

When they say "good pull-test." They mean that literally.
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Let's talk about peeing in space.

Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space.
When the Mercury program was proposed, doctors were worried that people would not be able to urinate or even swallow without the aid of gravity.

And yet, they still made plans to send a man into space.
When Alan Shepherd became the first American man to go into space, it was scheduled to be a fifteen-minute mission.

Up.

Hello space!

Back down.

They made no plans for peeing.
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