Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight - Centennial of Flight Series - Maura Phillips Mackowski - Books - Texas A & M University Press - 9781623498177 - June 14, 2019
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Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight - Centennial of Flight Series

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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 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   408 g
Language English