NASA's Analog Missions: Driving Exploration Through Innovative Testing

Reagan, M.; Janoiko, Barbara; Parker, M. L.; Johnson, James E.; Chappell, Steven P.; Abercromby, Andrew F. J.

doi:10.2514/6.2012-5238

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“…One of the most prominent methods for evaluating the effects of extreme environments on human systems is by conducting analog missions [15] The NEEMO missions in particular have been very valuable experiences for training astronauts to cope with ICE environments while maintaining an operational and scientific focus [16]. The Aquarius habitat (Fig.…”

Section: Analog Missionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simulation Builder, Analysis, and Development (SimBAD) Toolkit for Human Spaceflight Operation Training using the SpaceCRAFT Simulation Platform

Young

Jakubik

Zhong

et al. 2022

2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO)

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As the scope of human spaceflight continues to expand, the Human Systems Integration (HSI) developed to support complex missions must be robust and efficient. This risk has been outlined in the Human Research Roadmap (HRR) as the "Risk of Adverse Outcomes Due to Inadequate Human Systems Integration Architecture"[1], short name HSIA. One of the most critical elements of any human spaceflight mission is training, which prepares flight operations teams with the resources necessary to carry out that mission. As more distant destinations such as the Moon or Mars are targeted for human spaceflight, ensuring crew have the tools they need to overcome new types of challenges will be a significant focus when developing new training infrastructures. With the nature of such missions, there are several knowledge gaps associated with HSIA that motivate investigating how training should be carried out on such missions. This research focuses on studying these gaps and using the findings to create a conceptual demonstration for a tool that can be used to assist in the training infrastructure that supports future spaceflight missions. This tool is called the Simulation Builder, Analysis, and Development (Sim-BAD) tool, which is a User Interface (UI) that utilizes the Space Collaborative Real-time Analysis and Flight Toolkit to build virtual training environments. There are four main objectives that incentivize the development of this tool, the improved collaboration between groups in the flight operations team, a training framework that is capable of being packaged on board a spacecraft, a framework that accounts for dynamic mission parameters, and a heightened level of autonomy for crew on missions. These objectives have been driven by the findings from an examination of current spaceflight training methods, previous research on training for future missions, and elements of the HSIA risk that pertain to training.The SimBAD tool was designed with features that were motivated by these objectives to effectively create a virtual training facility. These features allow the user to control the environments, systems, procedures, events, and evaluations that are constructed together inside a virtual simulation. Giving this control to users as well as access to the environment through Virtual Reality ACKNOWLEDGMENTS There are a lot of people who helped make this thesis something that I could realistically complete. First of all is Dr. Gregory Chamitoff, without whom I would not have had the guidance, support, and inspiration to pursue this degree. Working with him has been a great experience and I'm grateful for all the opportunities that he helped make sure I was able to take advantage of. To all of my colleagues at the ASTROLab, I also have to give some credit, especially because of the many countless nights I spent pestering people on Slack with questions I had. Specifically Connor, Patrick, Alex, Elise, Colton and Trevor. I would also like to thank my committee, Dr. Nancy Currie-Gregg and Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles for doing helping guide m...

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Section: Analog Missionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simulation Builder, Analysis, and Development (SimBAD) Toolkit for Human Spaceflight Operation Training using the SpaceCRAFT Simulation Platform

Young

Jakubik

Zhong

et al. 2022

2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO)

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“…For example, a mission in which the participants are confined within their habitat dictates the usefulness of the testing that can be completed; there would also be vast differences in the technology applicable to a mission on a glacier, and a mission in the desert. Some examples of the types of technology demonstrated from current analogue missions, such as AMADEE, MDRS, DMARS, and NEEMO [10,15,16,17,19,25], include:…”

Section: Analogue Missionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

UK Analogue Mission Research: The Case for STEAM Education and Outreach

Owens¹,

Kaplan²,

Chterev³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities

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With little access to practical opportunities within the space industry for UK students, we have founded the UK Analogue Mission (UKAM) to provide motivated students with the platform to develop their skills and knowledge for their future careers. We believe that by utilizing our network and expertise, we can use UK-led space analogue missions to connect students from various disciplines and elevate the potential of the next generation of students.There is a rise in popularity and demand for analogue missions across the globe. Organizations in Austria and Israel [1][2] are using these initiatives to raise human spaceflight awareness to the public, as well as providing opportunities for students involving habitat design, experiments, and mission planning. Our goal is to increase the UK's human spaceflight capabilities and collaborate on the global stage with our own British astronauts. The strength of this was demonstrated by Tim Peake and his Principia mission which invited hundreds of students to the Science Museum in London and spurred a new wave of interest into UK spaceflight activities. The UK Space Agency (UKSA) Space Environments and Human Spaceflight Strategy [3] was further evidence of this, where David Parker argued that the UK should be "exploiting the unique opportunities for growth which human spaceflight and associated research programs can offer". Analogue missions provide a valuable niche and enrich the desire to go to space. Setting aside the importance this platform has for students, analogue missions simultaneously benefits technology demonstrations to raise Technology Readiness Level (TLR) in preparation for future space exploration. Exposing students to these demonstrations is a great way to stimulate inspiration to develop current and future innovations for the advancement of the space industry.With this ever-evolving industry and the rapid acceleration of innovation and technology, analogue missions provide a rich platform for students, young professionals, and organizations to come together for unique collaboration opportunities. Utilizing resources and expertise across all disciplines, we will elevate the UK space industry onto the international playing field.

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“…Numerous other human-in-the-loop simulations specifically focused on EVA operations have attempted to characterize the necessary capabilities for EVA operators in a variety of operationally relevant environments, such as the moon, moons of Mars, and Mars surface Rader, Reagan, Janoiko, & Johnson, 2013;Reagan, Janoiko, Johnson, Chappell, & Abercromby, 2012). However, there is currently still a lack of research dedicated to understanding how to appropriately transition inherent EVA work functions from the large team of ground support personnel to a few astronauts operating in deep space.…”

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Decision Support System Requirements Definition for Human Extravehicular Activity Based on Cognitive Work Analysis

Miller

McGuire

Feigh

2016

Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making

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The design and adoption of decision support systems within complex work domains is a challenge for cognitive systems engineering (CSE) practitioners, particularly at the onset of project development. This article presents an example of applying CSE techniques to derive design requirements compatible with traditional systems engineering to guide decision support system development. Specifically, it demonstrates the requirements derivation process based on cognitive work analysis for a subset of human spaceflight operations known as extravehicular activity. The results are presented in two phases. First, a work domain analysis revealed a comprehensive set of work functions and constraints that exist in the extravehicular activity work domain. Second, a control task analysis was performed on a subset of the work functions identified by the work domain analysis to articulate the translation of subject matter states of knowledge to high-level decision support system requirements. This work emphasizes an incremental requirements specification process as a critical component of CSE analyses to better situate CSE perspectives within the early phases of traditional systems engineering design.

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NASA's Analog Missions: Driving Exploration Through Innovative Testing

Cited by 16 publications

References 10 publications

Simulation Builder, Analysis, and Development (SimBAD) Toolkit for Human Spaceflight Operation Training using the SpaceCRAFT Simulation Platform

Simulation Builder, Analysis, and Development (SimBAD) Toolkit for Human Spaceflight Operation Training using the SpaceCRAFT Simulation Platform

UK Analogue Mission Research: The Case for STEAM Education and Outreach

Decision Support System Requirements Definition for Human Extravehicular Activity Based on Cognitive Work Analysis

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