Man in Space. Principles and Practice of Space Flight as Developed by the United States Air Force.. This item is unavailable.Man in Space. Principles and Practice of Space Flight as Developed by the United States Air Force.

London, Hollis and Carter, (1959). 8vo. xvi,+ 303 pp.+ plates. Illustrated. Some pencil markings. Publisher?s cloth with somewhat worn dust jacket. Owner?s label of professor Carl-Johan Clemedson on front fly leaf. UK edition, the first edition published in New York the same year. Contributions by Thomas D. White, Dan C. Ogle, Hubertus Strughold, Don Flickinger, John P. Stapp, Hans G. Clamann, George T. Haughty, Siegfried J. Gerathewohl, David G. Simons, S. B. Sells, Charles A. Berry, Bruno Balke, Paul A. Campbell, Evan R. Goltra, Burt Rowen, Don Flickinger, Homer A. Boushey, Richard W. Bancroft, Raymond Estep and Kenneth F. Gantz.Carl-Johan Clemedson (1918-1990) was a Swedish military physician working for Försvarets forskningsanstalt (The Swedish Defence Research Agency). Clemedson was one of the first scientists in Sweden to take an interest in space medicine and a member of The International Academy of Astronautics.