TY - BOOK ID - 14302389 TI - Grappling with Gravity : How Will Life Adapt to Living in Space? PY - 2012 SN - 1441968989 9786613351197 1283351196 1441968997 PB - New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Astronomy. KW - Gravity -- Physiological effect. KW - Space flight -- Physiological effect. KW - Space flight KW - Ecosystem KW - Adaptation, Biological KW - Physiological Processes KW - Medicine KW - Aviation KW - Environment KW - Astronomical Processes KW - Environment, Controlled KW - Astronomical Objects KW - Ecological and Environmental Phenomena KW - Physiological Phenomena KW - Transportation KW - Astronomical Phenomena KW - Physical Processes KW - Health Occupations KW - Biological Processes KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Physical Phenomena KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Phenomena and Processes KW - Technology, Industry, and Agriculture KW - Biological Phenomena KW - Health Care KW - Technology, Industry, Agriculture KW - Ecological Systems, Closed KW - Space Flight KW - Adaptation, Physiological KW - Aerospace Medicine KW - Extraterrestrial Environment KW - Gravitation KW - Astronomy & Astrophysics KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Astrophysics KW - Transportation Medicine & Physiology KW - Physiological effect KW - Gravity KW - Physiological effect. KW - Physics. KW - Planetology. KW - Space sciences. KW - Aerospace engineering. KW - Astronautics. KW - Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences. KW - Popular Science in Astronomy. KW - Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. KW - Astrophysics. KW - Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). KW - Astronomical physics KW - Astronomy KW - Cosmic physics KW - Physics KW - Planetary sciences KW - Planetology KW - Space sciences KW - Aeronautics KW - Astrodynamics KW - Space vehicles KW - Aeronautical engineering KW - Astronautics KW - Engineering KW - Science and space KW - Space research KW - Cosmology KW - Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14302389 AB - 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, whether it be to a 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, where weight and the direction "up" are meaningless? Adapting to microgravity represents the greatest physical challenge that human life will have encountered since our ancestors moved from the seas to solid Earth. It will be the next great adventure! ER -