October 2024
Revolutionising space medicine and global health through virtual and augmented reality
... meditative spaces, recreate nature and the outdoors, or even simulate increased personal space. This could provide psychological relief to astronauts who are otherwise in relatively small and often crowded spaces during their missions. The...
February 2016
A Moon of Their Own
...Space Corporation (URSC). After a rigorous medical and psychological selection process that took into account the participants’ ...During the initial stage, the candidates’ medical and psychological examinations were conducted, the crew was formed and ...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... round trip to Mars, where volunteers lived and worked in a mock mission environment, generating useful data on the psychological and social effects on people placed in a long-term and cramped living situation. Communication with the outside...
November 2018
Being human in space
... and sensory suits could mimic a sensory environment and might be produced based on personal life experiences and psychological anchors. Proposing to mimic Earth and favoured surroundings - just as we try to simulate the Moon and Mars - could...
October 2015
Eating in space: from Michelin-starred chefs to self-sufficiency
...help psychologists correlate physical and mental health. Sense of smell was considered an important enough factor in the psychological condition of cosmonauts to be included with the analysis of eating and sleeping habits. In the face of the many and...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
.... This means that the space environment must be totally rethought and redesigned according to the physiological and psychological needs of space travellers, as well as objects, facilities and tools for daily life activities which should make...
