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200 1. $a Animals in Space $b Texte électronique $e From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle $f edited by Colin Burgess, Chris Dubbs
210 .. $a New York, NY $c Springer New York $c Springer e-books $d 2007
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225 1. $a Physics and Astronomy (Springer-11651; ZDB-2-PHA)
225 1. $a Springer Praxis Books
330 .. $a 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 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
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