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. 2011 Sep;25(9):2858-64.
doi: 10.1096/fj.11-0902ufm.

To infinity ... and beyond! Human spaceflight and life science

Millie Hughes-Fulford  1
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To infinity ... and beyond! Human spaceflight and life science

Millie Hughes-Fulford. FASEB J. 2011 Sep.
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Conflict of interest statement

The author is a former NASA astronaut. The title exhortation is a quote from space ranger Buzz Lightyear, in the film Toy Story (Pixar Animation Studios), November 22, 1995.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Jules Verne's “bullet capsule,” designed to take 3 explorers to the moon by being shot from a very long gun barrel. Illustration from the novel From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne; drawn by Henri de Montaut (1868). Image courtesy private collector.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Paperback cover illustration for First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells, first published in 1901. Image courtesy Airmant Publishing Co., Inc.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth (1957). Image courtesy author's photo collection.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.
Skylab 3 (1973–1974), the first NASA space station. Image courtesy NASA.
Figure 5.
Figure 5.
International Space Station, a U.S. National Laboratory, as seen from STS-134. Image courtesy NASA.
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