Archived by Raymond J. Noonan, Ph.D., Health and Physical Education Department, Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York (FIT-SUNY), and SexQuest/The Sex Institute, NYC, for the benefit of students and other researchers interested in the human aspects of the space life sciences. Return to first page for background information on these pages.
About This Document
This set of pages on the World Wide Web is an introduction to humans in space, written by Ken Jenks of NASA's Space Biomedical Research Institute, in an effort to communicate NASA's efforts in human biomedical research to you, the public. Since I am an engineer trying to learn more about space biomedical research, I decided to document what I am learning about this area and make these notes available to the general public via the Internet. I'm trying to write this so that people who, like me, have very little formal background in this area can understand the basics. I hope that this set of hypertext documents increases your understanding of the basic biomedical problems involved in space travel and of NASA's attempts to understand and solve those problems. This will be a living, growing document, and I would very much appreciate your comments, especially if you have little or no formal training in the biomedical sciences.I have deliberately limited the number of hypertext links to outside subjects to keep your attention focused on the topic at hand, but I would be delighted to put any references in a special section of this document. If you know of any data on the Internet about humans in space, human medicine, or space biology, which would be of general interest, please drop me a line.
I'm writing this in sections, with a list of questions at the end of each section to help you judge how much you understand about each section, and to reinforce the key topics of the section. This format may be helpful in a classroom setting.
Much of the text presented here came from the Teacher's Manual for "Human Physiology in Space: A Program for America" by Barbara F. Lujan and Ronald J. White, written to increase understanding of space physiology in general and the Space Life Sciences-1 (SLS-1) mission in particular. I've taken out the parts specific to SLS-1, which flew as STS-40 on June 5, 1991, and I've added to the high-school-level information presented there. My sincere thanks to Dr. White for his encouragement to use parts of their document.
If you're interested in the NASA paperwork necessary to release this document, select here.
Thank you for joining me on my voyage of discovery. I hope you learn something here, too!
Last modified: Sep 21, 1994Author: Ken Jenks
Raymond J. Noonan, Ph.D. Health and Physical Education Department Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York (FIT-SUNY); SexQuest/The Sex Institute, NYC P.O. Box 20166, New York, NY 10014 (212) 217-7460 |
Author of: R. J. Noonan. (1998). A Philosophical Inquiry into the Role of Sexology in Space Life Sciences Research and Human Factors Considerations for Extended Spaceflight. Dr. Ray Noonan’s Dissertation Information Pages: [Abstract] [Table of Contents] [Preface] [AsMA 2000 Presentation Abstract] |
First published on the Web on June 14, 1998