Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle

by Chris Dubbs and Colin Burgess

Book Overview

This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the United States and the Soviet Union. It explores 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387360530
• ISBN13: 9780387360539
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Unethical use of non-human animals.

I could not support ever using any animals for this type of activity. Use humans instead.