From Laika with Love

This book reveals the extraordinary life and achievements of Duane Graveline, MD, MPH. A Vermont family doctor, aerospace medical research scientist, USAF flight surgeon and former NASA scientist-astronaut ( NASA Group 4 - 1965.) In 1957, while Graveline was studying at Johns Hopkins University, the Soviet Union followed up their stunning earlier achievement of launching the first satellite into space by sending an instrumented research dog named Laika into orbit aboard Sputnik 2. Becoming a flight surgeon and conducting space medical research was almost an inevitable career path and he soon found himself in the super-secret U.S.A.F. Foreign Technology Division as an analyst for Soviet Bioastronautics. During this time he was the flight surgeon who not only reviewed Laika's biotelemetry, but later that of cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov. His analysis team broke out the secret biodata monitor that enabled the entire NASA tracking network to monitor the cosmonauts on Voskhod 2

Year

2008

Language

English

Publisher

Space Doc Media

Editions

1

Pages

192

ISBN

9781424338702

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