Burgess / Dubbs Animals in Space

From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-49678-8
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 406 Seiten

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.

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 employed, and offer an objective analysis of how the role of animals as spaceflight test subjects not only evolved, but subsequently changed over the years in response to a public outcry led by animal activists. It will explore the ways in which animal high-altitude and space flight research impacted on space flight biomedicine and technology, and how the results - both successful and disappointing - allowed human beings to then undertake that same hazardous journey with far greater understanding and confidence.

This book is intended as a detailed yet highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights, and the resultant application of hard-won research to space technology and astrobiology.  It will undoubtedly become the ultimate authority on animal space flights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burgess, Colin

Dubbs, Chris

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Author's preface;16
3;Acknowledgements;21
4;Foreword;23
5;Figures;28
6;Abbreviations and acronyms;34
7;Also by Colin Burgess in this series;38
8;Prologue;39
9;Taming the rockets: From wrath to research;46
10;Holloman and the Albert Hall of Fame;69
11;Pioneers of destiny: The suborbital dog flights;104
12;High-altitude research;128
13;Able and Baker lead the way;163
14;The most famous dog in history;184
15;Prelude to manned space flight;209
16;Pioneers in a weightless world;242
17;Biting the hand;277
18;Cosmos/Bion: The age of the biosatellites;314
19;End of an era;343
20;Shuttling into space;373
21;Epilogue;408
22;Appendix A;410
23;Appendix B;413
24;Appendix C;417
25;Appendix D;421
26;Appendix E;422
27;Appendix F;423
28;Appendix G;424
29;Index;427