Animals in Space : From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle. 1st ed. 2007

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by Colin Burgess, Chris Dubbs

出版情報:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2007

著者名:

• Burgess, Colin.
• Dubbs, Chris.
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シリーズ名:

Space Exploration ;

ISBN:

9780387496788 [0387496785]    

注記:

Taming the rockets: From wrath to research -- Holloman and the Albert Hall of Fame -- Pioneers of destiny: The suborbital dog flights -- High-altitude research -- Able and Baker lead the way -- The most famous dog in history -- Prelude to manned space flight -- Pioneers in a weightless world -- Biting the hand -- Cosmos/Bion: The age of the biosatellites -- End of an era -- Shuttling into space -- Epilogue.
Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into space, but also that the high-profile, precursory Mercury flights of chimps Ham and Enos were the only primate flights conducted by the United States. In fact, both countries had sent literally dozens of animals aloft for many years prior to these events and continued to do so for many years after. Other latter-day space nations, such as France and China, would also begin to use animals in their own space research. Animals in Space will explain why dogs, primates, mice and other rodents were chosen and tested, at a time when dedicated scientists from both space nations were determined to establish the survivability of human subjects on both ballistic and orbital space flights. It will also recount the way this happened; the secrecy involved and the methods empl

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