The beginnings of space medicine
Berry, C.A.
Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine 57(10 Part 2): A58-A63
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0095-6562 PMID: 3535782 Document Number: 275610
The beginnings of space medicine are those of aviation medicine and involved, among many pioneers, Dr. Harry G. Armstrong and the Aeromedical Laboratory. Space Medicine has advanced in a short 23 years from arguments about man being capable of survival in space through animal and manned flights to flight durations of 6 months. The public and private arguments about man's capability to survive and work in space and the early decisions about flight duration and safety are chronicled from a personal point of view.