The International Space Station offers a valuable platform and environment for cell biology investigations, novel discoveries and innovation in a microgravity environment. Areas of opportunity include tissue culture studies, tissue engineering research using 3-D tissue models, biopharmaceutical production, host microbe interactions, host-toxicology interactions, and host-drug sensitivity and re…
For decades, researchers have used the fruit fly Drosophila to probe the combined effects of microgravity and other conditions of spaceflight with exposure to ionizing radiation. Drosophila melanogaster provides a well-characterized model organism that is both genetically complex and relatively modest in its habitat and life support requirements. Microgravity exposure, a unique biological chall…
Looks at the history of astronomy, identifies important astronomers, and summarizes what is known about the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars.
Hoyle begins his story with accomplishments of the astronomers of the ancient world - the Babylonians, Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans - amd their attempts to measure distance between heavenly bodies and to find order in the bewilding motions of the planets. Hoyle then recreates the richly varied lives and works of Copernicus, Kepler, Brache, and Galileo, showing hoe their work set…
This ebook contains space Astronomy and Astrophysics.