Life in space NASA life sciences research during the late twentieth century / Maura Phillips Mackowski.

Author/creator Mackowski, Maura Phillips
Format Electronic
Publication InfoGainesville : University of Florida Press, 2022.
Descriptionxvi, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

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
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 351-357) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021047909
ISBN9781683402602 (hardback)
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