Books in the Advances in Space Biology and Medicine series

Covers the developments in the use of animal models to study the effects of the space flight environment on human physiological systems. This work includes insights into the mechanisms and the potential role of gravity, stress, radiation and other space flight environment factors on physiological systems.

Presents investigations from different fields of developmental biology on various plant and animal models. This book contains ten chapters, giving details on how, in technical terms, experiments for spaceflights are prepared, performed and analysed and on how, in scientific terms, the available results have to be interpreted.

Dedicated to the results of the first European study of the effects of long-term confinement and isolation. This work brings the findings and accomplishments in the field of space biology and medicine. It also describes NASA's High Resolution Microwave Survey the project to search for the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

Provides a survey of studies on muscle of rodents flown in space, and reviews the effects of long-term spaceflight and re-entry on skeletal muscle. This work also discusses the problems of providing life support during extended stay on the Moon, on Mars, or in space by means of plant cultivation. It also presents a teaching of space life sciences.