Foundations of Space Biology and Medicine: Joint USA/USSR Publication; Volume II, Book 2, Ecological and Physiological Bases of Space Biology and Medicine
Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Volume II Book II ONLY. 27 cm. NASA special publication no. 374. Includes Illustrations. Index. DJ wear, soiling, tears, and chips. 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 retiring in 1980. Lieutenant General Oleg Georgievich Gazenko (December 12, 1918 – November 17, 2007) was a scientist, general in the Soviet Air Force and the former director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow. He was a leading scientist behind the Soviet animals in space programs, he selected and trained Laika, the dog who flew on the Sputnik 2 mission. Added t.p. in Russian: Osnovy kosmicheskoi biologii i meditsiny. Includes References and index. Volume II, Book Two, x, [2], 409-756 pages. Figures. Tables. Among the topics addressed include: Effect of Radiant Energy from Space on the Organism, Psychophysiological Problems of Space Flight, and Combined Effect of Spaceflight Factors on Man and Animals; Methods of Investigation. Some specific articles presented include: Ionizing Radiations, Stress of Space Flight, Astronaut Activity, Flight Factors, Space Biology, Space Medicine, Biomedical Data, and Space Research. Joseph P. Loftus was one of the authors. The IAASS Joseph Loftus Space Sustainability Award is assigned to an individual, or to a team, which has made outstanding contributions in the field of space sustainability. Condition: Good / Fair.
Keywords: Harold Urey, Astronauts, Life Support, Spacecraft, Space Suits, Space Station, Cosmonauts, Training, Biomedical, Exobiology, Extraterrestrial, Weightlessness, Ionizing Radiations, Stress of Space Flight, Astronaut Activity, Flight Factors, Space Biol
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