Robert W. Driscoll "Engineering Man for Space"; May 15th, 1963 in The Cyborg Handbook; edited by Chris Hables Gray, Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera, and Steven Mentor; New York: Routledge, 1995 (pp. 75-82) The NASA cyborg study (NASw-512) was initiated just three years after Clynes and Kline coined the term 'cyborg' in the Journal of Astronautics. Incorporating many of their original proposals, this NASA research proposal focuses on controlling the homeostatic processes of the human in space via artificial organs, drugs, hypothermia, sensory deprivation, pharmaceuticals, biocybernetics, and mineral dynamics. While acknowledging the human's localized functionality, the report poses any limitation as a conspicuous deficiency, a lack: "The need for this work arises because man is basically a biological organism designed to operate within the parameters defined by the earth environment. Despite remarkable degree of over design, there are many areas in which man's capabilities fall short of requirements posed by such missions" (p. 80). In this paradox, 'mission' requirements exceed the boundaries of the human, who must functionally be replaced by cyborg efficiency. Notably, the report never fully acknowledges the drastic implications coded within the term 'cyborg,' and only reiterates the myth of a stable human identity. L.E. Fazen