Life in Space: NASA Life Sciences Research During the Late Twentieth Century Mackowski Maura Phillips
A little-known yet critical part ofNASA historyLife in Space explores the many aspects and outcomes of NASA's research in life sciences, a little-understood endeavor that has often been overlooked in…
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A little-known yet critical part ofNASA historyLife in Space explores the many aspects and outcomes of NASA's research in life sciences, a little-understood endeavor that has often been overlooked in histories of the space agency. Maura Mackowski details NASA's work in this field from spectacular promises made during theReagan era to the major new directions set by George W. Bush's Vision for SpaceExploration in the early twenty-first century.At the first flight of NASA's space shuttle in 1981, hopes ran high for the shuttle program to achieve its potential of regularly transporting humans, cargo, and scientific experiments between Earth and the International Space Station.Mackowski describes different programs, projects, and policies initiated acrossNASA centers and headquarters in the