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Human Factors
Crew performance, mission operations, space history, policy and the human consequences of exploration.
Human Factors
Schoolteacher's mystery discovery on Galaxy Zoo became an astronomical object bearing her name
An amateur astronomer's casual observation became a cosmic mystery that still puzzles scientists today.
Most astronaut fingernail injuries happened in a swimming pool, not space
Astronauts on the space station are severely sleep deprived despite NASA's eight-hour mandate
Astronauts on the space station wear underwear for two days before discarding it
Visitor breath destroyed a 17,000-year-old cave, so France sealed it and built a replica
US dumped 47,800 containers of radioactive waste off San Francisco
Scientists hid 1,600 microphones across California forest to track how birds survive fire
Dozens of Gold Rush ships lie buried beneath San Francisco's streets
Chicago reversed its river to flush sewage away, sparking a century of legal war
Amsterdam's canal crew still pulls 12,000 bicycles a year from the water
Leonard Nimoy played a Native American character in a 1950s Western before becoming Spock
