National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

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Published as NASA Special Publication-4003 in the NASA History Series, 1965.

Table of Contents

Author's Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Space Medicine: A Critical Factor In Maned Space Flight

• Biological Requirements
• The Bioastronautics Mision Emerges

• Clinical Factors: USAF Aerospace Medicine
• Human Factors: USAF Research and Development
• U.S. Naval Research and Development
• Pre-Sputnik Cooperative Biological Experimentation

• U.S. Air Force Man-In-Space Concept
• U.S. Army Man-In-Space Concept
• Biological Experiments For Project Mercury
• The Aeromedical Working Team

• Biomedical Problems of Extended Manned Flight
• NASA Biosciences Requirements
• The Kety Committee
• Office of Life Sciences Established: 1960

• Criteria for Selection
• Evaluation of Potential Candidates
• Medical Testing
• Stress Testing
• Final Evaluation
• The Astronaut Medical Program
• Medical Aspects of Training

• Early Spacecraft Research and Development
• Life Support System and Design
• Environmental Control Systems
• Astronaut Participation in Engineering Design and Testing

• Medical Monitors
• STG-DOD Medical Advisory Board
• DOD Mercury Consultant Program
• Plans for Recovery Operations
• Detailed Responsibilities
• Testing

• Mercury Biomedical Capability Questioned
• The Lessons of Animal Experimentation
• Toward Countdown

• Chimpanzee Enos and the Near-Crisis
• Medical Implications of the Chimpanzee Flights
• Medical Implications of the Cosmonaut Flights
• Toward Gemini and Apollo

• Astronaut Slayton Grounded
• The Mercury Flights: 1962-63
• Medical Care
• Medical Monitoring
• Physiological Resonses to Space Flight
• Medical Data
• Recovery
• Space Medicine Looks to the Future

Appendices

• Appendix A - Members of Committees Listed on Chart 1
• Appendix B - Aeromedical Monitoring Personnel