Title: Testing the Limits
Description: “The author demonstrates a flair for drama and description. Using key details and well-told anecdotes, she evokes sympathy for the humor and pathos of the scientists’ lives and careers. In doing so, she succeeds in recognizing the life in what could be, in lesser hands, a dull recitation of experiments and promotions. . . . captures the excitement and human drama of aviation and space medicine.”
Subjects: Space medicine, Military Medicine, Aviation medicine, Aerospace Medicine, History, Space Flight, History, 20th Century
Places: United States