Grappling with Gravity How Will Life Adapt to Living in Space? /

• Main Author: Phillips, Robert W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: Physics.; Planetology.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.

Grappling with Gravity explores the physiological changes that will occur in humans and the plants and animals that accompany humans as we move to new worlds, whether it be to a colony in the emptiness of space or settlements on the moon, Mars, or other moons or planets. This book focuses on the bio...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Space Here We Come
• Chapter 1: A Great New Adventure
• Chapter 2: The Long Road to Space Flight
• Chapter 3: Why Go to Space?
• Chapter 4: Change and Prosper
• Chapter 5: Everything is Topsy-Turvy
• Chapter 6: Tomorrow's Tourist Adventures
• Part II: Life in Space
• Chapter 7: Taking Your Body to Space
• Chapter 8: Behavior in Space
• Chapter 9: An Essential Activity
• Part III: Preparing for the Future
• Chapter 10: Living Away from Earth
• Chapter 11: Taking the Plow to Mars
• Chapter 12: Speculations
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Acronyms
• Glossary
• Index.