Crew Training Requirements For Long Duration Missions

<p>After reviewing the journals of astronauts, cosmonauts, and others who lived and worked in confinement, a new pre-mission training approach for missions in confinement was developed. This new training approach is founded on the idea that conflicts in confinement often arise due to humanity's propensity to focus on how others behave rather than our own behavior. After reviewing the stresses experienced during spaceflight and astronaut training and selection methods, a survey was written and distributed to researchers with experience living and working in confined environments. The questions sought to discover whether conflicts arise for these reasons based on the participant's experiences and how effective they think this new approach to pre-mission training would be. Survey participants agreed conflicts were a result of this behavior and supported the hypothesis that pre-mission training including codependency rehabilitation techniques would be effective. This thesis recommends implementing these techniques in future astronaut training.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Space Studies

Year

2013

Author dc:creator

• Wargetz, Ann

Contributors dc:contributor

• Vadim Rygalov

• astronaut training, mission training, space psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.und.edu/theses/1489

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.und.edu:theses-2490