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

by Robert W. Phillips

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, be it to colony in the emptiness of space or settlements on the Moon, Mars, or other moons or planets. This book focuses on the biomedical aspects, while not ignoring other life-changing influences of space living. For example, what happens to people physiologically in the microgravity of space,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441968989
• ISBN13: 9781441968982
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"