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  1. Department of Neurology/Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

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    Jonathan B. Clark M.D., M.P.H.

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Clark, J.B. (2019). Human Spaceflight Accidents: The USSR/Russian Space Program. In: Young, L., Sutton, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Bioastronautics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10152-1_65-1

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