Title: Animals in Space
Subtitle: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
Description: "This book examines in unprecedented detail the entire history of animal atmospheric and space flights, from balloon ascents and ballistic journeys atop notoriously unreliable rockets to trips around the Moon and, more recently, aboard numerous space shuttles and space stations."--book jacket.
Subjects: Physiological effect, Animal experimentation, Space biology, History, Space flight, Research, Engineering, Astronautics, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Space flight, physiological effect, Weightlessness, Laboratory animals, Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology, History of Physics, Traffic Automotive and Aerospace Engineering, Space Exploration and Astronautics