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Social and cultural issues during Shuttle/Mir space missionsA number of interpersonal issues relevant to manned space missions have been identified from the literature. These include crew tension, cohesion, leadership, language and cultural factors, and displacement. Ground-based studies by others and us have clarified some of the parameters of these issues and have indicated ways in which they could be studied during actual space missions. In this paper, we summarize some of our findings related to social and cultural issues from a NASA-funded study conducted during several Shuttle/Mir space missions. We used standardized mood and group climate measures that were completed on a weekly basis by American and Russian crew and mission control subjects who participated in these missions. Our results indicated that American subjects reported more dissatisfaction with their interpersonal environment than their Russian counterparts, especially American astronauts. Mission control personnel were more dysphoric than crewmembers, but both groups were significantly less dysphoric than other work groups on Earth. Countermeasures based on our findings are discussed which can be applied to future multicultural space missions. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
Document ID
20040088652
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Kanas, N.
(University of California and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center San Francisco, California, United States)
Salnitskiy, V.
Grund, E. M.
Gushin, V.
Weiss, D. S.
Kozerenko, O.
Sled, A.
Marmar, C. R.
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 2000
Publication Information
Publication: Acta astronautica
Volume: 47
Issue: 2-9
ISSN: 0094-5765
Subject Category
Behavioral Sciences
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
NASA Discipline Space Human Factors
NASA Experiment Number 9401628
Flight Experiment
short duration
manned
STS Shuttle Project
Mir Project
Non-NASA Center
long duration

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