Robert W. Phillips (Bob) DVM, Ph.D.
Living in Space: The Good, the Bad and the Unknown
Benefiting Library Endowment for the College of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Robert W. Phillips DVM, PhD (Bob) a Professor Emeritus at Colorado State University grew up in Peoria, Illinois and served three years in the infantry during the Korean war. Following the war he completed his education at Colorado State University (DVM) and the University of California (PhD). In 1964 he joined the CSU faculty, taught and conducted research in Physiology and Nutrition until 1984. At that time he was selected to join NASA as a Payload Specialist to fly on the Spacelab Life Sciences 1, SLS-1, space shuttle mission. The first mission dedicated to biomedical research in space. He trained for the mission at Johnson Space Center in Houston, other NASA facilities and research laboratories around the United States and Canada. SLS-1 was 10 months from flight when the Challenger accident occurred. After return to flight the mission was again within a year of launch when flight medicine removed him from flight status because of a cardiac irregularity.
Following the flight he moved to NASA headquarters in Washington, DC and served three years as Space Station Chief Scientist helping ensure that what engineers designed and built was what the scientists and researchers, the users, wanted. From 1994 to 2005 he supported the NASA Life Sciences education and outreach program making presentations to science teachers, students and civic groups around the country.
Recommended Reading:
Human Physiology in Space: A Student´s Manual By Barbara Lujan and Ronald J. WhiteAvailable through contacting Andrea Lapsley
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