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Exploration of Habitability Factors Influencing Short Duration Spaceflight: Structured Postflight Interviews of Shuttle CrewmembersAstronauts report significant difficulties with sleep during Space missions. Psychological, physiological, and habitability factors are all thought to play a role in spaceflight insomnia. Crewmembers gain experience with the spaceflight sleep environment as their missions progress, but this knowledge is not formally collected and communicated to subsequent crews. This lack of information transfer prevents crews from optimizing their capability to sleep during mission, which leads to fatigue and its potentially deleterious effects. The goal of this project is astronauts with recent spaceflight experience to gather their knowledge of and insights into sleep in Space. Structured interviews consisting of standardized closed and open-ended questionnaires are administered to astronauts who have flown on the Space Shuttle since the Columbia disaster. It is hoped that review and analysis of the pooled responses to the interview questions will lead to greater understanding of the sleep environment during short duration spaceflight, with attention placed on problem aspects and their potential solutions.
Document ID
20090007552
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Locke, James
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Leveton, Lauren
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Keeton, Kathryn
(Wyle Labs., Inc. Houston, TX, United States)
Whitmire, Alexandra
(Wyle Labs., Inc. Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
February 2, 2009
Subject Category
Aerospace Medicine
Report/Patent Number
JSC-CN-17721
Meeting Information
Meeting: Human Research Program Investigators'' Workshop
Location: League City, TX
Country: United States
Start Date: February 2, 2009
End Date: February 4, 2009
Sponsors: Universities Space Research Association
Distribution Limits
Public
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