Download or read book Biomedical Results from Skylab written by Richard S. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biomedical Results from Skylab written by Richard S. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Skylab written by Shayler David and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-05-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between May 1973 and February 1974 three teams of astronauts increased the American space endurance record from 14 days, set in 1965, to three months aboard the Skylab space station in missions lasting 28, 59 and 84 days. American astronauts did not surpass these records for over 20 years until the NASA Mir missions began in 1995. In "Skylab - America's space station", David Shayler chronicles the evolution of the station, its infrastructure on the ground including astronaut training, each of the three manned missions, summary of results, achievements and the lessons learned. The creation of the International Space Station is the real legacy of Skylab as American astronauts once again embark on extended missions around the Earth.
Download or read book Biomedical Results from Skylab written by Richard S. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biomedical Results of Apollo written by Richard S. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Circulatory Response to the Upright Posture written by James J. Smith and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1990-09-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only up-to-date systematic review of normal human response to upright posture and lower body negative pressure (LBNP). It analyzes the key factors that influence postural tolerance, such as physical fitness, weightlessness, age, and sex. It also provides extensive details on the circulatory changes that have occurred during U.S. and Soviet manned space flights. The text is brilliantly illustrated with diagrams, tables, and comments on circulatory methods. Readers will discover some information which has never before been published. This one-of-a-kind volume also reviews the diagnosis and treatment of orthostatic hypotension-an extremely common orthostatic disorder. Circulatory Response to the Upright Posture is the first available literature since 1982 of human physiological and pathophysiological aspects of postural tolerance. A wide variety of readers will find this title interesting and of value. Circulatory physiologists, cardiologists, and everyone with an interest in exercise physiology, aging, space physiology, and environmental physiology will especially benefit from this writing.
Download or read book Space Physiology and Medicine written by Arnauld E. Nicogossian and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 life science book award from IAA.
Download or read book Shuttle OFT Medical Report written by Sam L. Pool and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medical operations for the orbital test flights which includes a review of the health of the crews before, during, and immediately after the four shuttle orbital flights are reported. Health evaluation, health stabilization program, medical training, medical "kit" carried in flight, tests and countermeasures for space motion sickness, cardiovascular, biochemistry and endocrinology results, hematology and immunology analyses, medical microbiology, food and nutrition, potable water, Shuttle toxicology, radiological health, and cabin acoustical noise are reviewed. Information on environmental effects of Shuttle launch and landing, medical information management, and management, planning, and implementation of the medical program are included.
Download or read book The Human Factor written by John A. S. Pitts and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological and Medical Research in Space written by David Moore and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Science studies in space were initially driven by the need to explore how man could survive spaceflight conditions; the effects of being launched un der high accelerations, exposed to weightlessness and radiation for different periods of time, and returned to Earth in safety. In order to substantiate the detailed knowledge of potentially adverse effects, many model experiments were launched using organisms which ranged from bacteria, plants, inverte brates, rodents and primates through to man. Although no immediate life threatening effects were found, these experiments can be considered today as the precursors to life science research in space. Many unexplained effects on these life forms were attributed to the condition of weightlessness. Most of them were poorly recorded, poorly published, or left simply with anecdotal information. Only with the advent of Skylab, and later Spacelab, did the idea emerge, and indeed the infrastructure permit, weightlessness to be considered as an ex tended tool for research into some fundamental mechanisms or processes as sociated with the effect of gravity on organisms at all levels. The initial hy pothesis to extrapolate from hypergravity through 1 x g to near 0 x g effects could no longer be retained, since many of the experiment results were seen to contradict the models or theories in the current textbooks of biology and physiology. The past decade has been dedicated primarily to exploratory research.
Download or read book Exercise Countermeasures for Bed rest Deconditioning written by John Edward Greenleaf and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose for this 30-day bed-rest study was to investigate the effects of short-term, high-intensity isotonic and isokinetic exercise training on maintenance of aerobic work capacity (peak oxygen uptake); muscular strength and endurance; and orthostatic tolerance, equilibrium, and gait. Other data were collected on muscle atrophy, bone mineralization and density, endocrine analyses of vasoactivity and fluid-electrolyte balance, muscle intermediary metabolism, and performance and mood of the subjects. Nineteen men (32-42 yr) were allocated into three groups: no-exercise control (peak oxygen uptake and isokinetic tests once/wk, N = 5), isotonic exercise training (electronic Quinton ergometer, supine, N = 7), and isokinetic exercise training (electronic Lido ergometer, supine, N = 7). The exercise training regimens were conducted near peak levels for 30 min in the morning and 30 min in the afternoon 5 d/wk. The protocol consisted of a 7-d ambulatory control period during which the subjects equilibrated on the standardized diet, 30 d of 6 degrees head-down bed rest, and a final 4.5 d of ambulatory recovery. Their diet consisted of commonly available fresh and frozen foods; mean caloric consumption of 2,678 +/- SE 75 kcal/d (control), 2,833 +/- SE 82 kcal/day (isotonic), and 2,890 +/- SE 75 kcal/d (isokinetic) resulted in mean weight losses during bed rest of 1.01 kg, 0.85 kg, and 0.0 kg, respectively. The results indicated that: (1) The subjects maintained a relatively stable mood, high morale, and high esprit de corps throughout the study. Scores improved in nearly all performance and mood tests in almost all the subjects. Isotonic training, as opposed to isokinetic exercise training, was associated with decreasing levels of psychological tension, concentration, and motivation, and with improvement in the quality of sleep. (2) Peak oxygen uptake was maintained during bed rest with isotonic exercise training; it was not maintained as well with isokinetic ( -9.0%) or no-exercise ( -18.2%) training. If a 9% reduction in aerobic power is acceptable, isokinetic exercise training could be used for maintenance of strength, endurance, and the reduced aerobic capacity in astronauts during flight. (3) In general, there were few decreases in strength or endurance of arm or leg muscles during bed rest, in spite of reduction in size (atrophy) of some leg muscles. (4) There was no effect of isotonic or isokinetic exercise training on orthostasis, because tilt-table tolerances were reduced similarly from 42-53 min to 30-34 min in the three groups following bed rest. (5) Bed rest resulted in significant decreases of postural stability and self-selected step length, stride length, and walking velocity, which were not influenced by either exercise training regimen. Pre-bed-rest responses were restored by the fourth day of recovery.
Download or read book Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight written by Michael R. Barratt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 939 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its first edition, Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight established itself as the authoritative reference on the contemporary knowledge base of space medicine and standards of care for space flyers. It received excellent notices and is used in the curricula of civilian and military training programs and used as a source of questions for the Aerospace Medicine Certifying Examination under the American Board of Preventive Medicine. In the intervening few years, the continuous manning of the International Space Station has both strengthened existing knowledge and uncovered new and significant phenomena related to the human in space. The Second Edition incorporates this information. Gaps in the first edition will be addressed with the addition new and revised chapters. This edition is extensively peer reviewed and represents the most up to date knowledge.
Download or read book Life Sciences and Space Research written by R. Holmquist and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Sciences and Space Research, Volume XVII contains the proceedings of the Open Meeting of the Working Group on Space Biology of the Twenty-first Plenary Meeting of COSPAR, held in Innsbruck, Austria, from May 29 to June 10, 1978 and of the Symposium on Gravitational Physiology which also took place in Innsbruck, Austria, on June 2 and 3, 1978. The papers review the results of research in the life sciences with respect to space biology, including chemical data returned from the Viking Lander experiments. The engineering design of biologically closed ecological systems suitable for very long term space flight or space colonies is also described. This volume is comprised of 41 chapters and begins with a discussion on closed regenerative life support systems for space travel and their implications for ecological science. Subsequent chapters examine closed ecology in space from a bioengineering perspective; technology requirements for nonterrestrial ecosystems; carbon suboxide polymer as an explanation for the wave of darkening observed on Mars; and volcanism and soil mercury on Mars, along with their consequences for terrestrial microorganisms. The next sections focus on the biology of extreme environments such as Central Antarctica, radiation biology in space, and gravitational physiology in relation to humans and animals. This book will be of interest to space scientists, space biologists, and those engaged in the life sciences, space research, molecular biophysics, biochemistry, and physiology.
Download or read book Space Enterprise written by Phillip Harris and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Space Enterprise - Living and Working Offworld, Dr Philip Harris provides the vision and rationale as to why humanity is leaving its cradle, Earth, to use space resources, as well as pursuing lunar industrialization and establishing offworld settlements. As a management/space psychologist, Dr. Harris presents a behavioral science perspective on space exploration and enterprise. In this his 45th book, Phil has completely revised and updated the two previous editions of this classic, placing new emphasis on the need for more synergy and participation by the private sector. He not only provides a critical review of what is happening in the global space community, but offers specific strategies for lunar economic development. The author analyzes the human factors in contemporary and future space developments, especially relative to the deployment of people aloft. This user-friendly volume offers numerous photographs, diagrams, exhibits, and case studies.
Download or read book NASA Technical Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NASA Technical Paper written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
