Tourists in Space: A Practical Guide - Couverture souple

Seedhouse, Erik

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3319050370 ISBN 13 : 9783319050379

Editeur : Springer, 2014

Synopsis

Here is a practical guide for potential suborbital and orbital space tourists. It features comprehensive medical information about spaceflight health requirements, details practical training modules and explains the current drivers of the new space frontier.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Erik Seedhouse worked as an Astronaut Training Consultant for Bigelow Aerospace in 2005 and wrote their Spaceflight Participants Flight Surgeon's Manual, the precursor to Tourists in Space. He also developed astronaut-training protocols for future spaceflight participants and wrote and edited several chapters of Bigelow Aerospace's Astronaut Training Manual. Dr. Seedhouse is a manned spaceflight consultant and research scientist specializing in environmental life sciences and physiology, the subject in which he obtained his Ph.D. in Physiology while working for the European Space Agency between 1996 and 1998. In 2009, he was one of the final candidates for selection as an astronaut in the CSA's Astronaut Recruitment Campaign. He is a certified commercial suborbital astronaut who will fly a payload mission in 2014. He is also Training Director for Astronauts for Hire and between 2008 - 2013, served as Director of Canada's Manned Centrifuge Operations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319050370
• ISBN 13: 9783319050379
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 308
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