Massachusetts, London: The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2021. — 302 p. — ISBN: 9780262044400. An argument is that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems – because human life on Earth has an expiration date. Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid...
Philadelphia: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Department of the NAVY, 1972. — 804 p. The Navy Aerospace Physiology Program traces its ongs to World War II, when physiologists entering the naval service were use das instructors in Altitude Training Units. The activities of Navy physiologists began to Lake the form of a program in 1948, when the establishment of the Medical...
Philadelphia: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Department of the NAVY, 1972. — 804 p. The Navy Aerospace Physiology Program traces its ongs to World War II, when physiologists entering the naval service were use das instructors in Altitude Training Units. The activities of Navy physiologists began to Lake the form of a program in 1948, when the establishment of the Medical...
Springer Science & Business Media, 2012. — 109 p. “Space Pharmacology” is a review of the current knowledge regarding the use of pharmaceuticals during spaceflights. It is a comprehensive review of the literature, addressing each area of pharmacokinetics and each major physiological system in turn. Every section begins with a topic overview, and is followed by a discussion of...
National Academies Press, 2012. — 86 p. NASA's current missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and potential future exploration missions involving extended stays by astronauts on the lunar surface, as well as the possibility of near- Earth object (NEO) or Mars missions, present challenges in protecting astronauts from radiation risks. These risks arise from a number...
World Scientific Publishing Co, 2017. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 9814667102, ISBN13: 978-9814667104. Fluid distribution in space flight and impact on brain and vision health is an emerging field of high-priority research in the NASA human space program. American astronauts have developed ocular refraction change after space flight on the International Space Station (ISS), in addition...
5th Ed. — CRC Press, 2016. — 893 p. — ISBN10: 1444179942. — ISBN13: 978-1444179941. Ernsting's Aviation and Space Medicine applies current understanding in medicine, physiology and the behavioural sciences to the medical challenges and stresses that are faced by both civil and military aircrew, and their passengers, on a daily basis. The fifth edition of this established...
New York: Springer, 2016. — 509 p. As space medicine evolved from the late 1950s onward, the need arose for a ready reference for students and practitioners on the basic concepts of this new specialty. Through three editions edited by leaders in the development of space medicine, this classic text has met the need. This fourth edition of Space Physiology and Medicine provides...
Fourth edition. — Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer business, 2008. — 754 p. Unlike most Forewords, I have elected to commence by going backward. For the benefit of the reader of this fourth edition of ‘‘Fundamentals’’ I begin with a very brief review of this texts’ progenitors. The foundation for this series of textbooks was laid by Dr. Louis Bauer in 1926 when...
World Scientific Publishing Company, 2009. — 852 p. — ISBN: 9812388613. The book provides an up-to-date overview of the history of aviation medicine and the development of medical requirements for licensing. Also the physiological foundation for flight, the physiology of the sensory organs, exposure to cosmic radiation, the preventative aspects of aviation medicine, the role of...
Scientific Paper. — Nuclear Technology & Radiation Protection, 2006. — 20 p. Authors: Manuel Sztejnberg, Shanjie Xiao, Nader Satvat, Felisa Limón, John Hopkins and Tatjana Jevremovic. Survey Study, Criteria and Preliminary Model. The prospect of manned space missions outside Earth’s orbit is limited by the travel time and shielding against cosmic radiation. The chemical rockets...
NASA Life and Biomedical Sciences and Applications Division/National Institutes of Health Dept. of Health and Human Services/Universities Space Research Association/UT Southwestern Medical Center, 1990. — 49 p. Introductory (high school). Covers basic physiology concepts, does not assume prior coursework in the subject. Human Physiology in Space was designed as a high school...
San Diego, California: by American astronautical society AAS Publications Office, 1998. — 226 p. ISSN: 0278-4017; ISBN: 0-87703-442-7 (Hard Cover); ISBN: 0-87703-443-5 (Soft Cover) One of the most important developments of the twentieth century has been the introduction of humans into space. For the first time, we could study humans in an environment free of the effects of...