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Isolation & Confinement

15 articles tagged · 1 topic · 4 clinical · 1 equipment · 9 research

SMF-T-0013 · draft

Behavioral Health & Performance in Isolation and Confinement

Psychological, sleep and team-dynamics effects of long periods in small, isolated and confined crews.

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Clinical articles (4)

SMF-C-0012 · protocol · draft

Behavioral health monitoring

What psychological problems have occurred in spaceflight, how agencies select, train, monitor and support crews, what isolation analogs teach us, and how to help with reintegration after return.

◆◆◇◇ Low · F A E

SMF-C-0001 · standard · draft

Medical standards overview

What NASA's crew health standard actually requires, how astronauts are medically selected and recertified, and what that means for a clinician who sees space travelers.

◆◆◆◆ High · E F

SMF-C-0015 · guide · draft

Postflight recovery & surveillance

A timeline of what to expect after landing — day 0 to day 45 and beyond — what NASA measures and when, which problems can persist for months or years, and how lifelong occupational surveillance works.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · F E

SMF-C-0000 · guide · draft

Clinician quick-start

A one-page orientation for GPs, emergency physicians, nurses and flight/aviation doctors: what to ask, what to check, the red flags, and where to find the details — before and after spaceflight.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · E F

Equipment guides (1)

SMF-E-0002 · reference · draft

Mission Medical Kits

What medical equipment, drugs and supplies are carried on suborbital flights, short commercial orbital flights, a low Earth orbit station, lunar and Gateway missions, and Mars-class missions, and how distance, duration, drug shelf life and the loss of evacuation change the kit.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · F C E

Research pages (9)

RES-00 · guide · draft

How evidence works

Why space medicine evidence is thin, what analogs and models can and can't tell us, how NASA rates risk, and how to read SMF's certainty grades.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · F A M C E

RES-01 · atlas · draft

Risk & Gap Atlas

One plain-language page for each of NASA's 21 active human-system risks, grouped by hazard, with current ratings, knowledge gaps and research.

◆◆◆◆ High · E

RSK-02 · NASA risk · draft

Behavioral health & cognition

Long missions can strain mental health and thinking. Problems in flight have so far stayed below diagnostic levels, but analog data suggest risk grows with mission length and isolation.

◆◆◇◇ Low · F A E

RES-03 · analogs · draft

Earth analogs

Bed rest, Antarctica, HI-SEAS, NEEMO, Mars-500, HERA, CHAPEA and parabolic flight. What each models well, and what it misses.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · A E

RSK-03 · NASA risk · draft

Team performance

Small crews must cooperate under stress and, far from Earth, with long communication delays. Conflict and coordination problems are well documented in flight and in analogs.

◆◆◇◇ Low · F A E

RSK-04 · NASA risk · draft

Sleep, circadian rhythm & workload

Astronauts sleep about six hours a night in flight, and schedules shift their body clocks. Ground studies tie this to worse performance and mood and to long-term disease risk.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · F A E

RES-05 · open questions · draft

Open questions

The biggest unknowns, in plain language, each linked to NASA's official knowledge gaps and the matching Risk & Gap Atlas page.

◆◆◆◆ High · E

RSK-08 · NASA risk · draft

Earth-independent operations

Far from Earth, a small crew must handle problems without real-time help from Mission Control. Vehicle, software, training and task design have to support that.

◆◆◇◇ Low · F E

RSK-17 · NASA risk · draft

Immune changes

The immune system becomes dysregulated in flight, which can reactivate dormant viruses and cause rashes. These changes persist through 6-month missions.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · F M E