Articles

By Joan

• "Making the Case for a Dedicated Australian Space Agency" Joan Vernikos, Wekly Global Report/Future Directions International, IV (21):10-14, 2008
• "The Workaholic's Wake-Up Call:Four Steps to Effective Stress Management, "Joan Vernikos, Ezine, June 16, 2008,  http://EzineArticles.com/?id=1249424.
• "US Satellite Interception Designed to Make Strategic Statement" Joan Vernikos, Defense and Foreign Affairs Special Analysis, Vol.XXVI, No.11, February 25, 2008.
• "Is Manned Spaceflight Worth the Cost: Why or Why Not?" Joan Vernikos, The New York Times Freakonomics blog, January 11, 2008.
• "Recommended Research" Joan Vernikos, W.Paloski, C.Fuller, G.Clement, In: Artificial Gravity, (G.Clement & A.Buckley, Eds.) Microcosm Press and Springer Science & Business Media, New York, NY, pp.357, 2007. (2008 Life Science Book Award of the International Academy of Astronautics)
• "From Space to Earth: advances in human physiology from 20 years of bed rest studies (1986-2006)" by A. Pavy-Le Traon, M. Heer, M.Narici, J. Rittweger, J. Vernikos, EJAP 101: 143-194, 2007.
• "Examining Vulnerability and Competition in Space" Joan Vernikos, Defense & Foreign Affairs Special Analysis, Vol XXV, No.50, June 26, 2007.
• "A Strategic Perspective of Space" Joan Vernikos, Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy,Vol XXXV,  No.4-5, 2007.
• "What do Space and Aging Have in Common?", Joan Vernikos, Oct. 2006 (pdf)
• "2015: Get Fit Without Moving a Muscle", Joan Vernikos, Popular Science, 2005.
• "Growing Old in Space", Joan Vernikos, Space Sciences: MacMillan Science Library, ed. Patricia Dasch, New York: MacMillan Reference, USA, 2002.
• "Stellar Training Science"(76K pdf), Joan Vernikos, PhD, in "Future Shock: Science Yes, Fiction No.  Buckle up as some of the world's strongest minds envision the body of the 21st century."  Ed. Jeff O'Connell, Muscle & Fitness, February 2000, p. 114.
• "Parallel Processes? The Study of Human Adaptation to Space Helps Us Understand Aging.", Joan Vernikos, The NASA Shuttle Web,  Oct. 1998.
•  "Human Physiology in Space", Joan Vernikos, Bioessays 18: 1029-37, 1996 (abstract free, pdf download for $25)

"The Healthy Aging Show," is a good link for news on aging: http://www.thehealthyagingshow.com/about.php 

"Aging Studies", an online study guide, www.bookrags.com

"A Pioneer of Space Medicine", Greece Now, 2000

"Space Aging", NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Oct., 1998