What do you imagine is responsible for keeping a human being functional during six months in one of the most extreme environments our species has ever visited?
The International Space Station is sealed, filtered, and controlled — and astronauts have described its smells as antiseptic, garbage-like, or metallic.
In the final weeks of 1973, three astronauts aboard NASA's Skylab space station were struggling.
A navigator plotting a course does not spend the whole voyage imagining the smooth water ahead.
At NASA, a scientist named Tom Williams leads the Human Factors and Behavioral Performance work inside NASA's Human Research Program.
Step outside on a clear night in rural Ireland and the sky is just there. No app to open, no announcement, no preamble.
When I was twenty-something and working in a corporate job, I started looking at the people who were ten and fifteen years ahead of me on the ladder.
"Okay, I can't see, but I can hear, I can talk, Scott Parazynski is out here with me.
I’ve been reading lately about how astronauts live, and the thing that has stayed with me isn’t the gear or the spacewalks.
The way my evening looks these days: by nine or ten, the overhead lights in the living room are off, replaced by a single warm-toned lamp in the corner.
Loneliness has, in the last decade, moved from a private discomfort to a public health concern.
Most of us know we don't sleep enough. We know it the way we know we should drink more water or sit less — we've heard it, we believe it in the abstract, and then we keep doing what we do.
When I'm working in, I have a small routine I have come to rely on. I work from cafés.
I have spent most of my working life fighting the same battle at the same time of day.
Darwin did his laps on a path near his house. Nietzsche walked alone for hours every day, notebook in hand, and eventually wrote down his conclusion: "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
I don't know about you, but when I'm working through something difficult — navigating a new place, trying to remember which platform my train leaves from…
