Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-357) and index.
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, the extended duration orbiter medical project, neurolab, and a station centrifuge -- Organizing in the 1980s-1990s: 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 nongovernmental organizations -- The vision for space exploration.
Summary:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.