Reading Science, Writing to Society
Science. Society. The two go hand in hand.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Where is the Missing Plastic?
Monday, July 4, 2022
How can cleaning up the ocean improve human life?
Sunday, July 3, 2022
How do the Wonders of Human Spaceflight Impact an Astronaut’s Psyche?
Astronauts have the unique opportunity to explore space and peer down on the planet, home to the society they know and the abundance of necessary resources to keep them alive. As these astronauts look down on the plentiful space available on Earth, these astronauts reside in a compact spacecraft with little privacy from other crew members. The conditions that these astronauts endure, are known as Isolated and Confined Extreme (ICE) environments. Explicitly, ICE environments are ones in which an individual is removed from society and placed in a restricted space, often for long durations of time 1. Astronauts have been exposed to these extreme environments since the 1960s with the beginning of the Mercury Space Program. Exposure to these environments is not a new phenomenon; however, with an increased drive for exploration and research in space, going farther and farther from Earth, the psychological impacts of exposure to ICEs has become a significant area to guide the research of scientists in multiple discipline areas.