Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight Volume 15 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781623498177)

". . . 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

Author: Maura Phillips Mackowski
ISBN-10: 1623498171
ISBN-13: 9781623498177
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2019
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d