adaptation
Behaviors of a mixed gender and culture group during a 4-month confinement (SIRIUS-19)
By: CAROLE TAFFORIN – With a view to prepare human groups for long international and interplanetary missions, Scientific International Research in Unique Terrestrial Station (SIRIUS) program develops confinement campaigns whose SIRIUS-19 was 4-month duration. The goal was to simulate four phases of a mission including traveling to the Moon, orbiting the Moon, landing on the…
Interaction and communication abilities in a multicultural crew simulating living and working habits at Mars Desert Research Station
By: CAROLE TAFFORIN, FRANCISCO GINER ABATI – Future interplanetary crewmembers will be micro-societies like autonomous and auto-organized systems far from the Earth. They will have to live and work together in small habitat units as it is simulated at Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah, USA. Missions become longer and the multi-national heterogeneity of…
Life at the Franco-Italian Concordia station in Antarctica for a voyage to Mars: ethological study and anthropological perspectives
adaptation, Antarctica, Concordia station, culture, human behavior, isolated and confined group, microsocietyBy: CAROLE TAFFORIN – For preparing the next interplanetary missions, this study proposes an ethological analysis of the social group building and individual strategies of a multicultural and mixed gender team in isolation and confinement conditions found in a polar mission. A model of adaptation to space environment is stated and implies physiological, psychological and…