G Scott Hubbard
G Scott Hubbard
As we move boldly forward into the 21st century, there has rarely been a more exciting time in which to contemplate the future of space exploration. The President of the United States has made a new and ambitious commitment to exploration o...
Social desirability bias in personality testing: implications for astronaut selection [0.03%]
人格测验中的社会期许偏差对宇航员选拔的影响
Gro M Sandal,Dave Musson,Robert L Helmreich et al.
Gro M Sandal et al.
The assessment of personality is recognized by space agencies as an approach to identify candidates likely to perform optimally during spaceflights. In the use of personality scales for selection, the impact of social desirability (SD) has ...
Jennifer Boyd Ritsher,Eva C Ihle,Nick Kanas
Jennifer Boyd Ritsher
Being in space is a powerful experience that can have an enduring, positive impact on the psychological well-being of astronauts and cosmonauts. We sought to examine the frequency, intensity and distribution of such salutogenic experiences ...
Gary H Kitmacher,William H Gerstenmaier,John-David F Bartoe et al.
Gary H Kitmacher et al.
Nearly six years after the launch of the first International Space Station element, and four years after its initial occupation, the United States and our 6 international partners have made great strides in operating this impressive Earth o...
Kilian A Engel
Kilian A Engel
The Space Elevator (SE) concept has begun to receive an increasing amount of attention within the space community over the past couple of years and is no longer widely dismissed as pure science fiction. In light of the renewed interest in a...
Anne M McNelis,John A Heese,Sergey Samorezov et al.
Anne M McNelis et al.
In order to verify that the International Space Station (ISS) payload facility racks do not disturb the microgravity environment of neighboring facility racks and that the facility science operations are not compromised, a testing and analy...
Mark Williamson
Mark Williamson
A long-term goal of space exploration is the development of a lunar settlement that will not only be largely self-sufficient but also contribute to the economy of the Earth-Moon system. Proposals for lunar mining and materials processing de...
The European space exploration programme: current status of ESA's plans for Moon and Mars exploration [0.03%]
欧洲空间探索计划：欧空局月球和火星探索计划现状
Piero Messina,Dietrich Vennemann
Piero Messina
After a large consultation with the scientific and industrial communities in Europe, the Aurora Space Exploration Programme was unanimously approved at the European Space Agency (ESA) Council at ministerial level in Edinburgh in 2001. This ...
Robert Shotwell
Robert Shotwell
NASA has initiated the first of a new series of missions to augment the current Mars Program. In addition to the systematic series of planned, directed missions currently comprising the Mars Program plan, NASA has started a series of Mars S...
Antibody engineering--a valuable asset in preventing closed environment epidemics [0.03%]
抗体工程在密闭环境防疫中的潜在价值
Ted Fjallman,J Christopher Hall
Ted Fjallman
Investigations of Mir, Space Shuttle, Skylab and Apollo missions report extensive colonisation of the spacecraft by bacteria and fungi, which can lead to degradative effects on spacecraft equipment and devastating effects on space-grown cro...