Medical issues for a mission to Mars

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 162-168

  Davis, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COSMONAUT; MICROGRAVITY; RADIATION HAZARD; SPACE FLIGHT; TELECOMMUNICATION;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, CLOSED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPEDITIONS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MARS; SPACE FLIGHT; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0032900086     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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