Life in Space : NASA Life Sciences Research during the Late Twentieth Century /

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"This book explores the many aspects and outcomes of NASA's research in life sciences, a little-understood endeavor that has often been overlooked in histories of the space agency"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mackowski, Maura Phillips (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Space biology > Research.
Manned space flight.
Life sciences > Research.
Astronautics.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics
Astronautics > United States.
Manned space flight > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Everyone's a Scientist: Students, Industry, and Partners in Space
  • Working in the Space Environment
  • Safety, Science, and Operational Medicine: Shuttle and Station in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Science and Scientists: Peer Review, EDOMP, Neurolab, and a Station Centrifuge
  • Organizing in the 1980s-90s: Ethics, Institutes, and Biological Modeling
  • Radiation and the Science of Risk Reduction
  • Design and Redesign: The Many Space Stations of NASA
  • The Cold War and Its Aftermath: Scientific Exchange, Social Change
  • More People, Less Science, Less NASA?: International Participants, Centrifuge, and NGOs
  • The Vision for Space Exploration

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