Life into Space, 1965—1990 presents an overview of space life sciences missions, payloads, and experiments developed and/or managed by NASA Ames Research Center. The contents include summaries of missions and payloads, experiment development, mission operations, and science results.
The book also includes interviews covering various aspects of space life sciences research, a chapter profiling NASA's relevant international and domestic collaborative efforts, and a chapter discussing the process of flight experiment implementation.
Three appendices describe, respectively, the methods and results of over 200 flight experiments, resulting science publications, and associated flight hardware with illustrations. Thorough subject and author indexes are included.
The appendices (Experiments, Publications, and Hardware) do not appear as complete sections in the Web version. Links to relevant experiments, publications, and hardware for each payload can be found within the mission profile (grey box appearing at the beginning of each mission section). A link to the introduction for each appendix, explaining its format and content, can be found in the Table of Contents at left.
Souza, Kenneth, Robert Hogan, and Rodney Ballard, eds. Life into Space: Space Life Sciences Experiments. NASA Ames Research Center 1965—1990. Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1995. NASA Reference Publication-1372.