Increased core body temperature in astronauts during long-duration space missions

Psychology and Culture during Long Duration Space Missions

The International Academy of Astronautics Study Group on Psychology and Culture in LongDuration Space Missions first convened in May 2003, at the 14 Humans in Space Symposium in Banff, Canada. After this initial meeting to define the group’s task, members divided into subcommittees and worked on drafts of sections of the document over email. The group reconvened in person several times to coord...

Activity Planning for Long Duration Space Missions

For long duration, manned exploration to be cost-effective, it is necessary to automate routine manual operations. To enable such automated control, activity plans must coordinate the activities of the crew with other automated “agents” including robots, life support systems, and vehicle systems. An important challenge is assisting the crew in using automated planning software to construct and ...

PSYCHOLOGY AND CULTURE DURING LONG-DURATION SPACE MISSIONS International Academy of Astronautics Study Group on Psychology and Culture During Long-Duration Space Missions

Distance and Size Perception in Astronauts during Long-Duration Spaceflight

Exposure to microgravity during spaceflight is known to elicit orientation illusions, errors in sensory localization, postural imbalance, changes in vestibulo-spinal and vestibulo-ocular reflexes, and space motion sickness. The objective of this experiment was to investigate whether an alteration in cognitive visual-spatial processing, such as the perception of distance and size of objects, is ...

The clinical chemistry and immunology of long-duration space missions.

Clinical laboratory diagnostic capabilities are needed to guide health and medical care of astronauts during long-duration space missions. Clinical laboratory diagnostics, as defined for medical care on Earth, offers a model for space capabilities. Interpretation of laboratory results for health and medical care of humans in space requires knowledge of specific physiological adaptations that oc...