Folder 7, Life Sciences Division overview, shuttle experiment results and space station health care system report, 1981 - 1986.

dc.coverage.temporal1981 - 1986
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-12T22:38:58Z
dc.date.available2019-02-12T22:38:58Z
dc.descriptionDr. Sherman P. Vinograd fulfilled the roles of Chief of Medical Science and Technology and Director of Biomedical Research at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from the fall of 1961 until the spring of 1979. In this role he shaped, organized, and directed NASA's program of medical research as a funded program of studies, which was carried out in not only NASA Center laboratories, but also in university, industry, and other government laboratories and hospitals all over the country. It produced a large substrate of information through its bed rest studies, vestibular, bone, neuromuscular, hematology, and cardiovascular researches. It also produced valuable fall-out, such as an accurate bone density measurement technique which is now in common clinical use.
dc.descriptionHis major activities during this career were conceptualizing, establishing, and chairing the Space Medicine Advisory Group (SPAMAG) charged with defining the earth-based and space-based research and life-support requirements for a manned orbiting research laboratory. This group designed a carefully planned study utilizing highly qualified, specialized members of the scientific community. They postulated a non-existent orbiting laboratory to be designed according to the needs of future human flight crews and requirements for human spaceflight information. This would result in the creation of Skylab.
dc.descriptionHe was also responsible for establishing the In-flight Medical Experiments Program in preparation for the Apollo series of manned space flights. This program was a series of carefully designed flight crew studies derived from proposals by qualified scientists both from within and outside NASA to evaluate human responses to spaceflight.
dc.descriptionIn addition, Dr. Vinograd developed a supportive Research and Development Program necessary to provide pertinent ground-based data and to advance state-of-the-art medical measurement technology, a major development of which was the Integrated Medical and Behavioral Laboratory Measurement System (IMBLMS). This consisted of medical experiments and accompanying equipment necessary to perform them that was used from the Gemini through the Skylab manned space flight programs. Carried aboard virtually any post-Apollo space vehicle by virtue of its rack and module design, these designs were used well into the future. He also fostered the continuing ground-based medical research program sponsored and/or conducted by NASA.
dc.descriptionThe Dr. Sherman P. Vinograd Aerospace Exploration collection consists of artifacts, books, correspondence, financial materials, newspapers, photographs, plaques, printed materials, and reports relating to Dr. Vinograd's early life, his career as an M. D. prior to joining NASA, his years as a physician and researcher at NASA, and the other professional organizations and projects in which he was involved both during and after these periods.
dc.descriptionBox 9, Folder 7
dc.format.extent267 pdf pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10605/351819
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsThe images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. Permission to publish these digital files in any form must be obtained from the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, 806-742-9070 or email reference.swco@ttu.edu.
dc.subjectVinograd, Sherman P.en_US
dc.subjectUnited States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.en_US
dc.subjectApollo Soyuz Test Project.en_US
dc.subjectGemini 10 (Spacecraft).en_US
dc.subjectLife sciences.en_US
dc.subjectScientists--United States.en_US
dc.subjectSkylab Program.en_US
dc.subjectSpace flight--Pysiological aspects.en_US
dc.subjectSpace flight--Physiological effect.en_US
dc.subjectSpace medicine.en_US
dc.subjectSpace stations--Health aspects.en_US
dc.subjectWeightlessness.en_US
dc.titleFolder 7, Life Sciences Division overview, shuttle experiment results and space station health care system report, 1981 - 1986.en_US
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