- 192 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Since our first manned space flights we have learned much about how the human body adapts to the space environment and in particular, to the absence of gravity. Today, space research provides a better understanding of our physiological response mechanisms to microgravity.Space and Life: An Introduction to Space Biology and Medicine describe
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Table of contents
- Book Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- 1 Manned and Unmanned Missions
- 2 Manned Space Flights
- 3 Space: An Extreme Environment
- 4 Gravity and Weightlessness
- 5 Physiological and Biological Effects of Weightlessness in Humans and Animals The Cardiovascular System
- 6 The Skeletal System and Weightlessness
- 7 The Muscular System
- 8 The Vestibular Apparatus and Balance System
- 9 The Other Effects of Weightlessness
- 10 Space Cell Biology
- 11 The Effects of Gravity and Weightlessness on Plants
- 12 Developmental Biology
- 13 Cosmic Radiation
- 14 Extraterrestrial Life
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- References
- Index