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Handbook of Bioastronautics, 1st ed. 2021

Langue : Anglais

Coordonnateurs : Young Laurence R., Sutton Jeffrey P.

Couverture de l’ouvrage Handbook of Bioastronautics
This comprehensive handbook serves the needs of biomedical researchers, space mission planners and engineers, aerospace medicine physicians, graduate students, and professors interested in obtaining an up-to-date and readable introduction to bioastronautics, the science of humans in space. Following the excitement and progress of the birth of the space age in the fifties and sixties, with the successes in human space flight ? culminating with the Moon landings ? the field of bioastronautics retreated into the more workmanlike arena of successively longer stays in low Earth orbit. At this time, major new initiatives are ahead both in human and robotic space exploration. The International Space Station, along with the developing Chinese space station and lunar program, will permit the development and testing of the means of astronaut protection for long duration missions ? eventually to Mars and its moons, as well as visits to asteroids, other NEOs, and the Lagrange points. New life support systems and innovative approaches to radiation protection beyond Earth?s magnetic field will all be developed and tested.  Meanwhile, the search for extraterrestrial life, past or even present, is accelerating ? with the spectacular finds of Martian water and the discovery of potentially habitable extra-solar planets. A new generation of scientists is ready to attack a new set of problems, and is in need of an efficient, accurate and searchable means of discovering the essentials of the field. This reference work also covers the challenges, past achievements, and potential solutions inherent to the safe exploration of distant space and the search for life off our planet. The entries summarize the tertiary literature and include sufficient data and illustrations to introduce each topic, while avoiding the length and detail of scientific review articles.
The Space Environment.- Life Support Systems.- Physiological Effects of Space Flight: Microgravity.- Space Radiation.- Psychological Aspects of Space Flight.- Careers and Education.- Astrobiology.- Space Biology Facilities.- Space Medicine.- Space Flight Analogs.- Human Space Flight Accidents and Incidents.- Highlights of Human Space Flight: Dates, Goals.- Future Human Exploration Challenges.- Astronaut Perspective.
Laurence R. Young Laurence R. (Larry) Young is the Apollo Program professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics, and professor of health sciences and technology (HST) at MIT. He was the founding director (1997–2001) of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) and is the head of science education for the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH). Dr. Young is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the International Academy of Astronautics and is a fellow of the IEEE and the AIMBE. He is a fellow and former president and Alza lecturer of the Biomedical Engineering Society. He graduated from Amherst College and MIT, where he also earned an S.M. and Sc.D. He joined the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics faculty in 1962. There, with Prof. Y.T. Li, he founded the Man-Vehicle Laboratory (MVL), now the Human Systems Laboratory (HSL). Dr. Young was the principal investigator for numerous research programs on eye movements and human spatial orientation – both on the ground and in space. He founded the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) Ph.D. program in bioastronautics. In 1991, Professor Young was selected by NASA for the crew of the Shuttle’s Spacelab Life Sciences 2 mission and served as an alternate payload specialist. Back at MIT he was appointed the first Apollo professor. Professor Young did research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and College de France in Paris as well as at Stanford and Université de Provence in Marseille. 

He served on numerous advisory committees and received awards from NASA, the Air Force, and the xv National Research Council. As a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, he chaired its Airlift Panel and received the Air Force Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service. He is a member of the Bárány Society for vestibular research and was selected by the American Institute of Aeronautics and

Examines both basic information and key concepts

Looks at how space affects the human body

Covers challenges, past achievements and solutions

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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