Project Gutenberg 2012-07-17 Public domain in the USA. 80 United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration N.A.S.A. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Agency NASA Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964 Produced by K.D. Thornton, Enrico Segre and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964" is a scientific publication produced by NASA, highlighting progress in the field of space biosciences during the late 20th century. The work focuses on the essential research and experimental findings related to life sciences applicable to space exploration, detailing the challenges and advancements made in understanding life in extraterrestrial conditions. The opening of this publication begins with a foreword and a preface that establish its context within a broader series. It introduces the bioscience programs initiated by NASA, which were modest at first but gained momentum by conducting experiments involving living organisms in space. Topics covered include the effects of weightlessness on biological systems, the search for extraterrestrial life compounds, and the development of life-support systems necessary for human space travel. This portion outlines the early objectives of the bioscience program, emphasizing the importance of understanding how space environments affect biological organisms, setting the stage for further detailed explorations in subsequent chapters. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/40268/40268-h/images/cover.jpg en Biology Space flight QH Text Browsing: Science - Astronomy Browsing: Science - General Browsing: Science - Genetics/Biology/Evolution 569347 569356 2024-09-17T05:10:16.540669 2023-09-17T13:24:05.916874 text/html text/html 556555 2012-07-17T14:08:06 text/html; charset=utf-8 305829 2012-07-17T14:11:58 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 337652 2024-09-17T05:10:29.397102 application/epub+zip 350090 2024-09-17T05:10:18.919754 application/epub+zip 231210 2024-09-17T05:10:17.611753 application/epub+zip 585989 2024-09-17T05:10:35.213085 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 564802 2024-09-17T05:10:28.166141 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 335349 2022-09-18T12:28:17.894069 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 385507 2024-09-17T05:10:14.474758 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 385941 2012-07-17T14:08:02 text/plain; charset=utf-8 125960 2012-07-17T14:11:58 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 385266 2012-07-17T14:10:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 125675 2012-07-17T14:11:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 385670 2012-07-17T14:11:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 125663 2012-07-17T14:11:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21809 2024-09-17T05:10:35.372143 application/rdf+xml 9112 2024-09-17T05:10:17.765667 image/jpeg 1637 2024-09-17T05:10:17.688670 image/jpeg 313498 2024-09-17T05:10:16.582721 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia