Teamwork in Spaceflight Operations

2019 ◽  
pp. 829-849
Author(s):  
Ute Fischer ◽  
Kathleen Mosier
Keyword(s):  
Space Exploration ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Control Space ◽  
Human Spaceflight ◽  
Joint Performance ◽  
Long Duration ◽  
Common Task ◽  
Mission Control ◽  
Coordination And Collaboration

Human spaceflight is a multiteam effort requiring the coordination and collaboration not only of individuals within a team (mission control or space crew) but importantly also between teams. In this chapter, the strategies and procedures these expert teams have established to ensure common task and team models, and to facilitate their communication and joint performance, will be discussed. The chapter also includes a discussion of the component teams of the mission control/space crew multiteam system, highlighting important features of their (intra)teamwork. The teamwork challenges of future long-duration space exploration are discussed, as are ongoing efforts and research needs to address them.

scholarly journals Microbiome for Mars: surveying microbiome connections to healthcare with implications for long-duration human spaceflight, virtual workshop, July 13, 2020

Microbiome ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael LaPelusa ◽  
Dorit Donoviel ◽  
Sergio E. Branzini ◽  
Paul E. Carlson ◽  
Stephanie Culler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Space Travel ◽  
Human Spaceflight ◽  
Long Duration ◽  
Microbiome Research

AbstractThe inaugural “Microbiome for Mars” virtual workshop took place on July 13, 2020. This event assembled leaders in microbiome research and development to discuss their work and how it may relate to long-duration human space travel. The conference focused on surveying current microbiome research, future endeavors, and how this growing field could broadly impact human health and space exploration. This report summarizes each speaker’s presentation in the order presented at the workshop.

Nutrition as Fuel for Human Spaceflight

Physiology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 324-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott M. Smith ◽  
Sara R. Zwart
Keyword(s):  
Space Exploration ◽  
Planetary Exploration ◽  
Human Spaceflight ◽  
Human Exploration ◽  
History Books

History books are rife with examples of the role of nutrition in determining either the success or the failure of human exploration on Earth. With planetary exploration in our future, it is imperative that we understand the role of nutrition in optimizing health before humans can safely take the next giant leaps in space exploration.

An Overview of NASA's Space Exploration Vision: The Human Systems Integration Challenges

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (23) ◽  
pp. 2014-2017
Author(s):  
Terry Allard ◽  
Mary K. Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Space Exploration ◽  
Systems Integration ◽  
Developmental Program ◽  
Launch Site ◽  
Human Systems Integration ◽  
Mission Control ◽  
Machine Systems ◽  
And Performance ◽  
President Bush ◽  
Human Systems

The space exploration vision announced by President Bush on January 14, 2004 requires a new way of thinking about human-machine systems. A progressive and sustained exploration of the Moon, Mars, and other destinations of discovery will depend on system design that supports and extends the capabilities of our astronauts through advanced automation, distributed mission support, and effective human-robot teaming. We provide an overview of the developmental program of exploration, and the critical Human-Systems Integration (HSI) challenges associated with each of seven operational domains: mission control operations; self-sufficient spacecraft operations; extra-vehicular activity / teleoperations; training and on-board decision support; launch-site operations; HSI engineering support; and behavioral health and performance.

The Long Space Age

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Private Funding ◽  
Large Space ◽  
Human Spaceflight ◽  
Long Run ◽  
History Of

The early years of the twenty-first century have seen the rise to prominence of private-sector American spaceflight. The result is a new phase of space development—one where human spaceflight is no longer the exclusive domain of governments, but an activity increasingly driven by the interests and motivations of individuals and corporations. In order to understand this phenomenon, we need to examine the long-run economic history of American space exploration. This book examines three critical phases of that history. The first phase is the financing and construction of American astronomical observatories from Colonial America to the middle of the twentieth century. The second is the career of Robert Goddard, the American father of liquid-fuel rocketry, whose efforts constituted the world’s first spaceflight development program. The third is the American political history of the Cold War ‘Space Race’ and subsequent NASA human spaceflight initiatives in the twentieth century. Examining these episodes from an economic perspective results in a new view of American space exploration—one where personal initiative and private funding have been dominant long-run trends, where the demand for impressive public signals has funded large space exploration projects across two centuries, and where government leadership in the field is a relatively recent phenomenon.

Achieving Human Presence in Space Exploration

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Lester
Keyword(s):  
Space Exploration ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Human Spaceflight ◽  
Human Presence ◽  
The Earth ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Way

One of the primary goals of human spaceflight has been putting human cognition on other worlds. This is at the heart of the premise of what we call space exploration. But Earth-controlled telerobotic facilities can now bring human senses to other worlds and, in that respect, the historical premise of exploration, of boots on the ground, no longer clearly applies. We have ways of achieving remote presence that we never used to have. But the distances over which this must be achieved, by humans based on the Earth, is such that the speed of light seriously handicaps their awareness and cognition. The highest quality telepresence can be achieved not only by having people on site, but also by having people close, and it is that requirement that truly mandates human spaceflight. In terms of cost, safety, and survival, getting people close is easier than getting people all the way there. It is suggested here that to the extent that space exploration is best accomplished by achieving a sense of real human off-Earth presence, that presence can be best achieved by optimally combining human spaceflight to mitigate latency, with telerobotics, to keep those humans secure. This is culturally a new perspective on exploration.

Using the Moon as a high-fidelity analogue environment to study biological and behavioral effects of long-duration space exploration

2012 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nandu Goswami ◽  
Peter G. Roma ◽  
Patrick De Boever ◽  
Gilles Clément ◽  
Alan R. Hargens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Space Exploration ◽  
Behavioral Effects ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Long Duration
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