Acclimation during space flight: effects on human emotion

Acclimation during space flight: effects on human emotion

Recently, studies on the extent to which spaceflight affects the psychology of individuals has received attention. In order to reveal the mental challenges that humans face in space, we need practical viewpoints to integrate the psychological effects, behavior, performance and the environment itself for space exploration. The present review discusses the individual variables related to space ps...

Acclimation during space flight: effects on human physiology.

Psychological effects of space flight.

P S Y C H O L O G I C A L EFFECTS of space flight may arise from central nervous system changes produced by physiological stress or from emotional reactions to various aspects of the flight. Since either of these may disrupt crew performance or impair the health of crew members, potential sources of adverse psychological change must be identified and steps to control it must be taken. Man's beh...

Spatial Orientation during Locomotion following Space Flight

To investigate changes in spatial orientation ability and walking performance following space flight, 7 astronaut subjects were asked preand post-flight to perform a goal directed locomotion paradigm which consisted of walking a triangular path with and without vision. This new paradigm, involving inputs from different sensory systems, allows quantification of several critical parameters, like ...

Calcium and bone metabolism during space flight.

Weightlessness induces bone loss. Understanding the nature of this loss and developing means to counteract it are significant challenges to potential human exploration missions. This article reviews the existing information from studies of bone and calcium metabolism conducted during space flight. It also highlights areas where nutrition may play a specific role in this bone loss, and where cou...