Index 



Agriculture, Department of, 127, 130, 171, 177, 182 

 Air Force, U.S., 171, 177, 182 



School of Aerospace Medicine, 40, 55 



Office of Scientific Research, 40 



Space Command, 51 

 American Heart Association, 51 

 American Institute of Biological Sciences, 175-76 

 Announcement of Opportunity, 36, 48, 159, 176, 197 

 Antarctic, 67, 74, 89, 92, 125, 149 

 Apollo, 8, 174, 201 



crew, 12, 41, 45-46, 202 



program, 17, 27 

 artificial gravity {see variable-gravity centrifuge), 

 astronaut medical information data base, 7, 13, 30-31, 94, 

 98-99 



Biocosmos, 109, 154, 158-60, 201 

 Biosatellite, 4, 14, 27, 158 

 Breadboard Project, 20, 113-17, 119-21, 212 

 Brookhaven National Laboratory, 54 



Challenger, 10, 14, 21, 155, 157-58, 164, 173-74, 212 



Columbia University, 54 



Comet Halley, 135, 138, 147 



Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby Mission, 135-36, 147 



Commerce, Department of, 91 



Commercial Centers for the Development of Space, 15, 



185-87 190 

 Commercially Developed Space Facility, 109, 154, 158-59, 



201 

 Congress, U.S., 173, 178 

 countermeasures, to the effects of microgravity on humans, 



6, 18, 27, 32, 42, 44, 46, 48-49, 97, 99, 107, 161-62 

 Crew Emergency Return Vehicle, 7, 13, 19, 29, 31, 93, 97-98 



deconditioning, as a result of extended exposure to 

 microgravity 

 physiological, 5-6, 18, 29, 41-43 

 psychological, 5, 18, 72-73 

 Defense, Department of, 65, 91, 156-57, 177, 182, 202 

 Detailed Supplementary Objective, 95, 176 

 Discipline Working Groups, 36, 159, 181 

 Dryden Flight Research Facility, National Aeronautics and 

 Space Administration, 91 



Earth Observing System, 9, 33-34, 126, 128, B0 

 Energy, Department of, 127, 130, 171, 177, 182 

 England, 39 



Environmental Protection Agency, 127, 130 

 Europa, 146 



European Space Agency, 39, 50, 119, B0, 160, 202 

 expendable launch vehicle, 36, 108, 158, 168 

 extravehicular activity, 4, 7-8, 12, 27, 29-30, 73, 79, 81-84, 88, 

 96, 99, 177, 201 



Federal Aviation Administration, 91 

 Federal Communications Commission, 91 

 Federal Coordinating Committee in Science and 



Technology, 50 

 Federal Laboratory Consortium, 185-86 

 Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), 36, 39, B8 

 Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986, 185-86 

 France, 39 

 French National Center for Space Studies, 160 



galactic cosmic rays {see radiation) 

 Gemini, 12, 46, 201 



German Research and Development Institute for Air and 

 Space Travel, 119, 160 



Health Maintenance Facility, 7, B, 19, 29, 31, 86, 92-94, 

 97-98, 160, 188-90, 201, 212 



India, 149 



Intergovernmental Personnel Act, 183-84 

 International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, 14, 124, 

 127-29 



Japan, 5, 36, 119, 122, 149 



Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space 



Administration, 54, 196 

 Jupiter, 146 



Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 54, 62 



Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, 54 



Lifesat, 154, 201 



Life Sciences Division {see NASA Divisions) 



Life Sciences Strategic Planning Study Committee {see 



NASA Advisory Council) 

 life support requirements, during extended space flight, 7, 



30, 88, 112 

 life support systems, 2, 4, 7, 20, 27, 30, 82, 88, 112, 182 



Mars, lx, 1, 6-9, 12-18, 20-21, 28, 31, 33-35, 40, 44, 50, 



59-60, 67, 69, 81, 86-88, 92-93, 95, 97-98, 102, 105, 107, 120, 



122, B3-34, B7-38, 140-47, 153-54, 161, 163, 166, 197, 202, 



212 

 Mars Observer Mission, B7 

 Mars Rover/Sample Return Mission, B7, 147 

 Medicine Policy Board, National Aeronautics and Space 



Administration, 31, 91, 201 

 microgravity, 7, 31-32, 40, 42-47, 49, 67-68, 86, 89, 94, 97, 



101-04, 106-07, 109, 116, 119-21, B5-36, 147, 162, 188, 197 

 Microwave Observing Project {also see Search for 



Extraterrestrial Intelligence), 4, 9, 27, 35, 144, 148-49, 201 

 Mir, 109, 202 

 Moon, ix, 1, 8, B-16, 35, 58, 60, 81-82, 86-87, 93, 102, 107, 



B7, 140, 145, 166 



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