PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SPACE FLIGHT by Flaherty, B. E. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SPACE FLIGHT

by Flaherty, B. E. (ed)

New York, 1961: Columbia University Press, 393 pages, $10.00

Containing a collection of papers presented by experts at a symposium sponsored by the School of Aerospace Medicine, USAF Aerospace Medical Center, the book is divided into four parts: "Technical Background and Experience," "Critical Problem Areas," "Problems of Human Reliability," and "Special Techniques of Control." The papers include detailed reports on Project Mercury, experiences with small animals in missile flights, sensory-physiological aspects of space flight, psychiatric factors in astronaut selection, neurophysiology of stress, physiological data acquisition, assessment of individual resistance to senory alteration, motivations and emotional reactions in early space flights, skill maintenance under adverse conditions, drugs, space and cybernetics; evolution to cyborgs, the latest results of research in hypothernia, hypnosis, sensory alteration, and measurement of the cognitive process. There are also accounts of personal experiences in high-altitude escape situations, prolonged states of weightlessness, and simulated space flight.

Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III