Foundations of Space Biology and Medicine: Joint USA/USSR Publication
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Three volumes in 4 bindings. Volume II is in two parts. 27 cm. NASA special publication no. 374. Includes Illustrations. Index. Highlighting/underlining. DJ has some wear and soiling, with small tears and chips. Some pencil underlining noted. Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 – January 8, 1997) was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was founder and Director of the Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics and simultaneously Associate Director of Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, where he conducted much of his research until his retirement in 1980. Added t.p. in Russian: Osnovy kosmicheskoi biologii i meditsiny. Includes bibliographies and index. Vol. I: Space as a Habitat. (xviii, 442 p); Vol. II: Ecological and Physiological Bases of Space Biology and Medicine (2 books, x, 405, [1] and x, 406-756); and Vol. III: Space Medicine and Biotechnology (x, 542 p). Lieutenant General Oleg Georgievich Gazenko (December 12, 1918 – November 17, 2007) was a Russian scientist, general officer in the Soviet Air Force and the former director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow. One of the leading scientists behind the Soviet animals in space programs, he selected and trained Laika, the dog who flew on the Sputnik 2 mission. Condition: Good / Good.
Keywords: Harold Urey, Astronauts, Life Support, Spacecraft, Space Suits, Space Station, Cosmonauts, Training, Biomedical, Exobiology, Extraterrestrial, Weightlessness
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Price: $225.00