Category: Science - Biology
The biological program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had a late start. A small life sciences group, organized in 1958, was concerned with life support and use of primates for system and vehicle testing for the Mercury program. Three small suborbital flig...
The biological program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had a late start. A small life sciences group, organized in 1958, was concerned with life support and...
2. chapter 2The possibility of discovering an independent life form on a planet other than Earth presents an unequaled challenge in the history of scientific search. Therefore, the detectio...
3. chapter 3High priority has been given to studies of weightlessness. Gravity is one of the most fundamental forces that acts on living organisms, and all life on Earth except the smallest...
4. chapter 4NASA was established in 1958, shortly after the Russian launching of the second Earth satellite Sputnik II, the first vehicle to carry life into orbit around the Earth. This acc...
5. chapter 5To support biological investigations in space and to accumulate baseline data needed for manned space flight, NASA has conducted a program in laboratory research and theory. A m...
6. chapter 6Biological and medical experiments carried out on balloon flights, both manned and unmanned, antedate the establishment of NASA. Aside from the early use of balloons in flights...
7. chapter 7Placing a man in space requires a complete life-support system capable of supplying sufficient oxygen, food, and water and removing excess carbon dioxide, water vapor, and human...
8. chapter 8One of the most critical research areas of the space program is bioscience. Of both practical and philosophical significance in exploring the origins of life and the possibiliti...