Assessment of Space Station design and operation through Bioastronautics

Acta Astronaut. 1988 Feb;17(2):207-12. doi: 10.1016/0094-5765(88)90025-2.

Abstract

The paper reviews the main elements and major issues affecting human productivity and discusses some selected factors which might not be sufficiently identified and/or considered from the Bioastronautics point of view at the present stage of planning Space Station design and operation.

MeSH terms

  • Aerospace Medicine
  • Astronauts / education
  • Astronauts / psychology
  • Cosmic Radiation
  • Ecological Systems, Closed
  • Ergonomics*
  • Facility Design and Construction*
  • Humans
  • Life Support Systems*
  • Noise
  • Personnel Selection
  • Protons*
  • Radiation Protection / standards
  • Social Isolation
  • Space Flight*
  • Spacecraft
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Weightlessness*

Substances

  • Protons