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Psychosocial Resilience

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Where manned spaceflight was once an endeavor concentrated primarily on complex feats of engineering, psychosocial factors are becoming of increasing importance in mission planning. Planned future missions are increasing in scope, duration, and complexity as governmental space agencies and private ventures alike have set their sights on suborbital flight, space tourism, lunar missions, asteroid mining, Mars habitats, near-Earth objects and increasingly-distant locales. This chapter discusses the psychological challenges of the spaceflight environment, relevant lessons learned from other extreme environments, and current approaches toward optimizing crew selection and performance, culminating with a discussion of considerations for the future of psychological health in manned spaceflight.

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  1. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

    Shawna Pandya

  2. Nebulab NYC, New York, NY, USA

    Lee von Kraus

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  1. Manned Spaceflight Consultant, Mississauga, ON, Canada

    Erik Seedhouse

  2. Astro Info Service Ltd , Halesowen, UK

    David J Shayler

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Pandya, S., Kraus, L.v. (2019). Psychosocial Resilience. In: Seedhouse, E., Shayler, D. (eds) Handbook of Life Support Systems for Spacecraft and Extraterrestrial Habitats. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09575-2_212-1

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