Developments in Aerospace Medicine and Association with Preventive Medicine

The development of rocketry has, for the first time, made it possible for man to leave the environs of the earth's atmosphere. It has extended the arts and sciences of aviation into space and aviation medicine into space medicine. The progress is exemplified in Project Mercury, which is to place a manned capsule on top of an intercontinental ballistic missile rocket. Concurrently with these develo…