Aerospace Toxicology Overview: Aerial Application and Cabin Air Quality

The environment extending above and beyond the surface of the planet Earth is referred to as aerospace (Blashfield and Johnson 1969). This word also symbolizes the joint fields of aeronautics and astronautics. The former is the art and science of flight through the atmosphere (Blashfield and Johnson 1969) and the latter is the art and science of space flight (Blashfield and Johnson 1968a). Another term frequently and interchangeably used with aerospace and aeronautics is aviation, which is defined as the art and science of operating powered aircraft (Chaturvedi 2010a, b; The Encyclopedia Americana 1989). © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.