Animals in Space : From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle
Colin. Burgess
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt | Chichester, UK : Springer , c2007
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Omfang | 1 online resource (450 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; Authors' preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword; List of Figures; List of abbreviations and acronyms; Prologue; 1 Taming the rockets:From wrath to research; 2 Holloman and the Albert Hall of Fame; 3 Pioneers of destiny:The suborbital dog flights; 4 High-altitude research; 5 Able and Baker lead the way; 6 The most famous dog in history; 7 Prelude to manned space flight; 8 Pioneers in a weightless world; 9 Biting the hand; 10 Cosmos/Bion:The age of the biosatellites; 11 End of an era; 12 Shuttling into space; 13 Epilogue; Appendix A U.S. monkey research flights. - Appendix B Soviet space dog programmeAppendix C U.S. biological rocket flights 1946-1960; Appendix D French biological rocket flights, 1961-1967; Appendix E Chinese T-7 sounding rocket launches; Appendix F Bion research flights; Appendix G Space shuttle life science orbital flights; Index. - Explains why dogs, primates, mice and other rodents were chosen and tested, at a time when dedicated scientists from both space nations - USA and Russia - were determined to establish the survivability of human subjects on both ballistic and orbital space flights. This book is intended as an account of the history of animal space flights.
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Emner | Space flight
Animal experimentation. Space biology. Space flight -- Physiological effect -- Research -- History. Vis mer... Aeronautics Engineering & Astronautics
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ISBN | 9780387360539
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