Skylab Collection 1960-1990

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Skylab Collection 1960-1990

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The Skylab Collection comes from the library of Dr. Shiro Furukawa, who was a NASA scientist that worked under the supervision of Skylab physician Dr. Paul Buchanan. Dr. Furukawa was a flight surgeon on the Skylab Medical Team and later investigated space station era life sciences, medicine programs, manned operations, as well as automated/robotic space construction operations at Kennedy Space Center. This collection houses publications, reference material, NASA reports, journal, magazine, and newspaper clippings related to the research he conducted throughout his career.

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Wright State University, Special Collections and Archives

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

Space Station Program (U.S.)

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Project Apollo (U.S.)

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The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returnin...

Skylab Program

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John F. Kennedy Space Center

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Furukawa, Shiro

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Dr. Shiro Furukawa was born on September 22, 1922, in Tosu City, Japan. He graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1942 and served as a Naval Aviation Radar instructor at Yokosuka Naval Air Force Base. He received his M.D. degree in 1950 from the School of Medicine at Kumamoto University. He completed his postgraduate residency in pathology at the University of Tennessee in 1965 and joined the Advanced Technology Research Laboratory at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsv...

Aerospace Medical Association.

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The collection contains a variety of files with information relevant to the organization's history previous to 1960. The bulk of the collection pertains to annual meetings (1943-1981). From the description of Archives / Aerospace Medical Association. 1942- (Wright State University). WorldCat record id: 21981227 ...