CONTENTS
(Volume, 72, Science and Technology Series,
Working in Orbit and Beyond:
The Challenges for Space Medicine)

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FOREWORD, David Lorr, Victoria Garshnek and Claude Cadoux vii

Current Status and Future Direction of NASA’s Space Life Sciences Program (AAS 87-152), Ronald J. White and Barbara F. Lujan 1

Vestibular Factors Influencing the Biomedical Support of Humans in Space (AAS 87-153), Byron K. Lichtenberg 9

Reduced Gravity: A New Biomedical Research Environment (AAS 87-154), Robert S. Snyder 17

Some Medical Aspects of the Space Phoenix Program (AAS 87-155), Thomas F. Rogers 25

Bone and Muscle Maintenance in Long Term Space Flight, With Commentary on the Aging Process (AAS 87-156), Stanley R. Mohler 29

Cardiovascular Responses to Microgravity: Adaptation, Maladjustment, and Countermeasures (AAS 87-157), F. Andrew Gaffney 37

Soviet Manned Space Flight: Progress Through Space Medicine (AAS 87-158), Victoria Garshnek 45

Radiation Hazards in Low Earth Orbit, Polar Orbit, Geosynchronous Orbit, and Deep Space (AAS 87-159), Percival D. McCormack 59

Assessment of the Efficacy of Medical Countermeasures in Space Flight (AAS 87-160), A. E. Nicogossian, F. Sulzman, M. Radtke and M. Bungo 79

Health Maintenance on Space Station (AAS 87-161), James S. Logan 87

Consideration for Solar System Exploration: A System to Mars (AAS 87-163), Arnauld E. Nicogossian and Victoria Garshnek 101

The Effects of Space Flight on the Cardiopulmonary System (AAS 87-164), Arnauld E. Nicogossian, Victoria Garshnek and F. Andrew Gaffney 111

Preparing Cosmonauts for Space Flight: Simulation Facilities of the Soviet Space Program (AAS 87-165), Victoria Garshnek and Robert Overmeyer 121

Long-Duration Soviet Manned Space Flight: The Development and Implementation of Postflight Recovery Measures (AAS 87-166), Victoria Garshnek 127

APPENDICES 133

Appendix A:
Space Phoenix Program 135

Appendix B:
Selected Photographs of Space Medicine Related Activities 149

Appendix C:
Publications of the American Astronautical Society 165

Science and Technology Series 166

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences 170

INDEX 175

Numerical Index 177

Author Index 178