Testing the Limits : Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight
Overview
". . . a brilliant piece of scholarship . . . Mackowski's book belongs in every space historian's library. Seldom does one find in scholarly literature a book as easy and enjoyable to read as Testing the Limits."--Air Power History "Maura Phillips Mackowski has filled a critically important gap in the literature of American aerospace history. . . . The author provides a compelling narrative overview of the development of aviation medicine in the United States. . . . Testing the Limits is an important and engrossing story, well told in very lively prose. Specialists and general readers alike will find it difficult to put down."--The Journal of American History "...demonstrates outstanding scholarship in the exploration of the history of American military aviation medicine."--Space Times
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- ISBN-13: 9781623498177
- ISBN-10: 1623498171
- Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
- Publish Date: June 2019
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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