MAN IN SPACE by Haber, H. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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MAN IN SPACE

by Haber, H.

Indianapolis, 1953: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 291 pages, $3.75

Man in Space presents a non-technical account of space medicine and its problems and progress. Illustrated by cartoon-like sketches, it deals with radiation and meteorite hazards to space vehicles, acceleration, the phenomenon of weightlessness, nutrition, atmospheric control in spaceships, mental effects of long duration voyages, closed cabin ecology, and so forth.


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