Piantadosi book looks at past and future of space exploration

Claude Piantadosi, MD, professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine), is author of a new book about human space flight. Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration (2013: Columbia University Press) "emphasizes the importance of reclaiming national command of our manned program and continuing our unmanned space missions, and he stresses the many adventures that still await us in the unfolding universe." Piantadosi is also author of The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments (2003: Oxford University Press).

Can a body take it?

Watch this fascinating talk, about the biomedical constraints for interplanetary space flight, that NASA physician Jim Logan, MD gave recently to Duke medical students. (Login with Duke NetID is required.) Logan is completing a fellowship in the Duke Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology.