Testing The Limits: Aviation Medicine And The Origins Of Manned Space Flight (Volume 15) (Centennial Of Flight Series)

In Testing the Limits, Maura Phillips Mackowski describes the crucial foundational contributions of military flight surgeons who routinely risked their lives in test aircraft, research balloons, pressure chambers, rocket-propelled sleds, or parachute harnesses. Drawing on rare primary sources and interviews, Mackowski also reveals the little-known but vital contributions of German emigre scientists whose expertise in areas unknown to Americans created a hybrid specialty: space medicine. Mackowski reveals new details on human aeromedical experimentation at Dachau, Washington's decision to limit astronaut status to males, and the choice to freeze the air force out of the research specialty it had created and brought to fruition.--

• | Author: Maura Phillips Mackowski
• | Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 14, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1623498171
• | ISBN-13: 9781623498177