Washington: Office of Naval Researching, 1961. — 124 p. Since man has actually accomplished the historical task of ballistic flight (Alan Shepard, May 5, 1961, and Gus Grissom, July 21, 1961), and of orbital flight (Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961, and Gherman Titov, August 6, 1961), a compilation of events which have contributed to these brilliant feats is considered essential....
Berlin; New York: Springer; Praxis Publishing, 2006. — 436 p. This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the United States and the Soviet Union. It explores the ways in which animal high-altitude and space flight research impacted on space flight biomedicine and...
San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 159534862X; ISBN13: 978-1595348623. Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable data that would make future...
NASA, 1991. — 19 p. Life on Earth has evolved under the constant force of one gravitational unit (lg). The importance of this gravitational field as an environmental factor is supported by the extent and diversity of physiologic adaptations to pressure gradients in living systems. When the force of gravity is removed, some physiologic systems are greatly affected (Lenfant and...
N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1991. — 64 p.: ill. — ISBN-10 0531200035; ISBN-13 978-0531200032. Discusses the animals originally sent up in space as experiments, and looks at current projects being conducted on various plants and animals. A brief history of the use of animals in space. Short chapters discuss the dogs, monkeys, and chimps used in both Soviet and American programs, as...
Милым, славным собачкам - Лайке, Белке, Стрелке за служение в деле покорения космоса, сохранения жизни и здоровья авиаторов и космонавтов. Фотоальбом (научные материалы и фотодокументы из архива ГосНИИИ военной медицины МО РФ) / Составители: Газенко О.Г., Ушаков И.Б., Ворона А.А., Хоменко М.Н., Поляков М.В., Анисимов Г.В., Мнациканьян А.З., Лапа В.В., Журилина М.А., Касаткин В.И.,...
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