Books by Brett A. Gooden

Brett Gooden has had a life long interest in human rocket flight. In 1961 he joined the British Interplanetary Society (UK) and was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1973. In 1967 he became a member of the Space Medicine Branch of the Aerospace Medical Association (USA). He obtained his MB, BS (1967) and MD (1972) degrees from the University of Adelaide and PhD (1978) from the University of Nottingham (UK). He was elected to membership of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society (USA) in 1973 and the Physiological Society (UK) in 1975. His scientific research in Australia, USA and UK has dealt mainly with aerospace and diving medicine. His publications include one of the first reviews of the physiological responses of human beings in orbit appearing in Spaceflight in 1964 and other aspects of human space flight. His fascination with the relationship between structure and function also lead to his studies into the remarkable adaptations of the Australian spiny anteater, the echidna. He is also author of Diving and Asphyxia: a comparative study of animals and man (Cambridge University Press, 1983), Spaceport Australia, [space launches from the Woomera rocket range in fact and fiction] (Kangaroo Press,1990), Echidnas of Australia and New Guinea (New South Wales University Press, 1993 & 1997) and Projekt Natter - Last of the Wonder Weapons: The Luftwaffe's Vertical Take-Off Rocket Interceptor (Classic Publications, 2006).