Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight Volume 15 - Paperback

by Maura Phillips Mackowski (Author)

". . . a brilliant piece of scholarship . . . Mackowski's book belongs in every space historian's library. Seldom does one find in scholarly literature a book as easy and enjoyable to read as Testing the Limits."--Air Power History

"Maura Phillips Mackowski has filled a critically important gap in the literature of American aerospace history. . . . The author provides a compelling narrative overview of the development of aviation medicine in the United States. . . . Testing the Limits is an important and engrossing story, well told in very lively prose. Specialists and general readers alike will find it difficult to put down."--The Journal of American History

"...demonstrates outstanding scholarship in the exploration of the history of American military aviation medicine."--Space Times

Author Biography

MAURA PHILLIPS MACKOWSKI, who holds a Ph.D. in history, is a research historian currently residing in Gilbert, Arizona.