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White to move and mate in two #600 -- Hidden Libraries [1]

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Date: 2024-12-12  

The World’s Most Unusual Book Depositories

When American astronaut Susan Helms was sent to the ISS in 2001, NASA granted her permission to bring a total of ten paperbacks. This is how paper copies of Gone with the Wind, Vanity Fair and War and Peace made it into space. More than 20 years later, space tourists test-driving commercial interstellar space flights often bring books along with them to the ISS. When he took his first space flight in 2007, software engineer Charles Simonyi brought a copy of Faust along with Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Today, the library on the ISS is well stocked with both books and movies. Sci-fi is a (perhaps surprisingly) popular genre in both departments, including such titles as Alien Infection by Darrell Bain, The Moon’s Shadow by Catherine Asaro, and the films 2001: A Space Odyssey and Gravity.

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