Human Missions to Mars: New Psychological Challenges and Research Issues

Manzey, Dietrich

doi:10.2514/6.iac-03-g.4.08

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“…The specific peculiarities of space missions to Mars pose unique challenges including long duration and distance, which, for the first time, involve the so-called 'Earth-out-of-view phenomenon'. The participants in such a mission must have a high degree of autonomy and the capacity to adapt to an ICE environment, a changing workload imposed on space flyers ranging from underloading to overloading, a complex psychosocial situation characterized by a lack of privacy and enforced social contacts with other crewmembers, and separation from the usual social network of family and friends (Kanas, 2011;Manzey, 2004). Consequently, the potential of these stressors to lead to symptoms of mood disturbance and stress cannot be underestimated.…”

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Stress and Recovery Responses during a 105‐day Ground‐based Space Simulation

Marilleau

Gushin

2014

Stress and Health

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The present study analysed the time course of the psychological process of stress and recovery in six healthy male volunteers during the Mars 105 experimentation, a 105-day ground-based space analogue. The multidimensional assessment of stress and recovery responses showed that stress levels decreased significantly throughout the 105-day isolated and confined extreme (ICE) experiment, especially on its social dimension. In line with previous studies, Fatigue showed a global and progressive reduction. The present results suggest that ICE exposure may not systematically induce stress overload and impaired psychological states. To optimize adaptation to ICE conditions, further improvements in positive psychological effects may be possible by improving the countermeasures, as well as the screening and selection of participants, in order to enhance coping capacities and to improve the balance of recovery-stress states.

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Stress and Recovery Responses during a 105‐day Ground‐based Space Simulation

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Gushin

2014

Stress and Health

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“…Consequently, the effectiveness of the CMO in dealing with psychological issues may be enhanced if the crew feels that he/she is "part of the team" and that concerns raised would be kept confidential to the greatest extent possible. Manzey [16] felt that new psychological challenges would be faced in a mission to Mars. However, for the most part he felt that these issues could be addressed in crew selection and training and by support from Earth.…”

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Survey of astronaut opinions on medical crewmembers for a mission to Mars

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“…Whether longer duration in bed rest and even outer space (e.g. a voyage to Mars and staying on the planet's surface may take 1000 days) (Manzey, ) will affect astronauts' cooperative and aggressive behaviors differently needs to be investigated in the future. Further research should detect behavioral trends in real space flight with longer duration, which can be combined with the present research and fully consider the influence on cooperative and aggressive behaviors.…”

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Effect of 45‐Day −6° Head‐Down Bed Rest on Cooperation and Aggression

Wang

Zhou

Rao

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Applied Cognitive Psychology

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High levels of cooperation and low aggression seem obviously vital to the successful implementation of space missions. To elucidate the effect of microgravity on these behaviors, we investigated whether cooperative and aggressive behaviors would be affected in 16 male volunteers during 45-day À6°head-down bed rest, which is a reliable simulation model for most physiological effects of spaceflight. We used an ultimatum game task to evaluate the cooperative behavior and a revised competitive reaction time test to evaluate the aggressive behavior simultaneously. We found that (1) the participants became less cooperative in the post-bed rest phase in comparison with the pre-bed rest phase and (2) the participants became more aggressive in the in-bed rest phase in comparison with the pre-bed rest phase. These findings provide evidence that head-down bed rest may affect both cooperative and aggressive behaviors in males, suggesting an important perspective for future studies in space psychology.

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Human Missions to Mars: New Psychological Challenges and Research Issues

Cited by 16 publications

References 13 publications

Stress and Recovery Responses during a 105‐day Ground‐based Space Simulation

Stress and Recovery Responses during a 105‐day Ground‐based Space Simulation

Survey of astronaut opinions on medical crewmembers for a mission to Mars

Effect of 45‐Day −6° Head‐Down Bed Rest on Cooperation and Aggression

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