Saturday, December 15, 2018

The Psychological Challenges of Just Getting to Mars

The Psychological Challenges of Just Getting to Mars:
Image result for Psychological Challenges of Just Getting to Mars"...Life outside Earth has its own Hobbesian description: isolated, confined, and extreme—or I.C.E. “Space is the quintessential ICE environment,” according to a 2018 paper, published in American Psychologist.
...But only humans sealed inside cumbersome suits, trained to weather such nerve-racking circumstances, can explore them.
...“The astronauts will be months away from home, confined to a vehicle no larger than a mid-sized RV”—the still-under-development Orion spacecraft—“for two to three years,” she says.
Unlike on the International Space Station, “there will be an up to 45-minute lag on communications to and from Earth...”
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