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The Human Factor: Biomedicine in the Manned Space Program to 1980
John A. Pitts
History
The Human Factor: Biomedicine in the Manned Space Program to 1980
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This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - provides unique information about NASA's biomedicine program in the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab era, with fascinating insights into medical issues faced by the early astronauts.

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English
ISBN
9781466161030
Book Cover - The Human Factor
The Human Factor: Biomedicine in the Manned Space Program to 1980
Contents
Preface
1. Medicine, Machines, and Manned Flight
2. The Human Factors of Project Mercury
3. NASA's Life Sciences Program
4. The Human Factor in Long-Duration Manned Spaceflight
5. Life sciences Management in an Accelerated Space Program
6. The Biopolitics of Manned Spaceflight
7. Lunar Trajectories: Biomedicine in the Gemini and Apollo Programs
8. Directing the Life Sciences Program
9. A New Bioastronautics Crisis
10. Lunar Transit: Biomedical Results from Apollo and Biomedical Preparations for the Post-Apollo Space Program
11. Toward an Integrated Life Sciences Program
12. NASA Life Sciences from the Shuttle into the Future
Bibliography
Source Notes
Appendixes
A. Selected Biomedical Terms of Aerospace Interest
B. Organizational Arrangements for the Administration of Lifew Sciences Programs at Headquarters and Centers, 1958-1980
C. Formal Reviews of Organization and Management of NASA's Life Sciences Program, 1960-1978
D. NASA's Life Sciences Programs, 1958-1980: Research Development, Inflight Experiments
E. Medical Support for Manned Spaceflight Operations
F. NASA's Life Sciences Programs: Fiscal Year Appropriations, 1961-1978
Index
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