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Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight - Centennial of Flight Series
Maura Phillips Mackowski
Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight - Centennial of Flight Series
Maura Phillips Mackowski
Describes the crucial f contributions of military flight surgeons who routinely risked their lives in test aircraft, research balloons, pressure chambers, or parachute harnesses. Maura Phillips Mackowski also reveals the little-known but vital contributions of German emigre scientists whose expertise created a hybrid specialty: space medicine.
304 pages, 42 black & white photographs
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 14, 2019 |
ISBN13 | 9781623498177 |
Publishers | Texas A & M University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Dimensions | 408 g |
Language | English |
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