SPACE MEDICINE by Marbarger, J. P. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

SPACE MEDICINE

by Marbarger, J. P. (ed)

Urbana (Illinois), 1951: University of Illinois Press, 83 pages, $3.00

Six chapters, by different contributors, cover space medicine in the US Air Force, multistage rockets and artificial satellites, physiological considerations on the possibility of life under extraterrestrial conditions, astronomy and space medicine, orientation in space, and bioclimatology of manned rocket flight. Although short, it was an important pioneering publication effort in a new branch of medical science.

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