BIOSPEX:Biological Space Experiments A Compendium of Life Sciences Experiments Carried on U.S. Spacecraft

摘要

United States Space Life Science experiments, encompassing 27 years of experience beginning with sounding rocket flights carrying primates (1948) to the last U.S. spaceflight, the joint U.S./U.S.S.R. Apollo Soyuz Test Project (1975), are presented in brief from. The information for each experiment includes Principal Investigators, the program and mission on which it was flown, the specimens used, the objectives, protocol, equipment, results, conclusions, and bibliographic reference citations for publications derived from each experiment. It includes an investigator address list and an index of term. The document is divided into chapters for human, animal, plant, and microorganism specimen types.