Sleep-Wake Dynamics During the Mars 520-d Mission Simulation

BACKGROUND Future ventures in human interplanetary spaceflight, which are already on the drawing board, will require a giant leap forward from any experience we have obtained to date in engineering requirements and will present significant and perhaps as yet unknown human physiological, psychologica...

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Published in:Aviation, space, and environmental medicine space, and environmental medicine, 2013-12, Vol.84 (12), p.1308-1309
Main Author: Frey, Mary Anne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aeronautics
Aviation
Boards
Human
Mars missions
Simulation
Space flight
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Summary:BACKGROUND Future ventures in human interplanetary spaceflight, which are already on the drawing board, will require a giant leap forward from any experience we have obtained to date in engineering requirements and will present significant and perhaps as yet unknown human physiological, psychological, and intellectual challenges. The information on which we currently depend is derived from spaceflights of much shorter distance and duration and studies in analogue environments, such as winter-over missions at Antarctic bases. Much more information and research data are needed to enable predictions of the effects of long periods of confinement, isolation, and the many other spaceflight stressors on the activity, performance, and health of crewmembers. This research, which was part of the Mars 520-d mission simulation study developed and performed by the Institute for Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has provided information for this database.
ISSN:0095-6562
DOI:10.3357/ASEM.3724.2013