Terrestrial analog

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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.

Isolation & ConfinementDistance from EarthBehavioral Health & Sleep

Research pages (6)

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

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-02 · studies · draft

Landmark studies

The studies that shaped what we know: the NASA Twins Study, the Inspiration4/SOMA package, ISS long-duration cohorts and bed-rest research.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · F A

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

STU-04 · landmark study · draft

Bed-rest studies

Lying in bed tilted 6° head-down for weeks reproduces many effects of weightlessness. It is the workhorse for testing countermeasures, with important blind spots.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · A