Author: Mae Mills Link
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Category : Space medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Mae Mills Link
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Category : Astronauts
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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Project Mercury was the first American laboratory in which man was able to test his physiological capabilities to withstand the hostile forces of the extraterrestrial environment for longer than a few second.Indeed, from the viewpoint of environmental medicine as an apllied science, Project Mercury marked the swift transition from what had come to be known as aviation medicine to what is now recognized as space medicine. The present study aims to provide a building block for a future life-science history recounting man's conquest of nature beyond the planet Earth. The author sets forth a chronological account of a unique medical support program.

Author: John Catchpole
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781852334062
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Catchpole tells the fascinating story behind the development of the first American manned space program and its associated infrastructure. He provides accounts of the space launch vehicles, astronauts and their training, tracking systems and individual flights.

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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Category : Manned space flight
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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The achievement of future manned space flight no longer appears to be subject to serious question. Solution of a broad variety of problems involved in the attainment of manned space flight requires extensive scientific activity and progress--but the time is approaching when the scale of accomplishments will be in balance with the scale of requirements. Because the achievement of space flight also requires that man survive and function productively, one of the most important areas of space research resides in the life sciences, more frequently referred to by the term "space medicine."

Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781495377686
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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(Updated February 13, 2006) Project Mercury is now history. In its short span of four years, eight months, and one week as the Nation's first manned space flight program, Mercury earned a unique place in the annals of science and technology. The culmination of decades of investigation and application of aerodynamics, rocket propulsion, celestial mechanics, aerospace medicine, and electronics, Project Mercury took man beyond the atmosphere into space orbit. It confirmed the potential for man's mobility in his universe. It remains for Projects Gemini and Apollo to demonstrate that potential. Project Mercury was not only a step in the history of flight technology, it was a major step in national commitment to space research and exploration and to man's struggle to fly. One has only to contrast it with the Wright Brothers' achievements of sixty years ago, when two meticulous men, with a bicycle shop, a handmade wind tunnel, determination and industriousness, and little financial means or support, accomplished controlled, powered flight. The austere contrast of the Wrights or of Professor Goddard's rocket work with today's Government-sponsored, highly complex space program, involving thousands of persons and hundreds of Federal, industrial, and university activities, is eloquent testimony to the new prominence of science and technology in our daily lives. The evolution and achievements of Project Mercury offer an outstanding example of a truly national effort in the advancement of knowledge and its application. The Project Mercury story must be examined in the full context of its fundamental features - scientific, engineering, managerial - in the dynamic human environment of national and international life. Indeed, the national commitment to Project Mercury and its successors requires a valid perspective on the potential accomplishments of science and technology as well as on the response of a democratic society to the challenges of its day. This chronology of Project Mercury represents only a beginning on the full history, just as Mercury was only a first step in the development of American space transportation. No chronology is a history. This volume is but a preface to what is yet to come. Yet it offers us a catalog of processes by which man progresses from ideas originating in the human mind to the physical devices for man's travel to the moon and beyond.

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Category : Space medicine
Languages : en
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Author: John A. S. Pitts
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Category : Space biology
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development
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Category : Space medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Committee Serial No. 12. Reviews space medicine research operations and objectives of NASA, Army, Navy, and Air Force.

Author: Mae Mills Link
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Category : Space medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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