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Human Factors
Crew performance, mission operations, space history, policy and the human consequences of exploration.
A single gunshot can permanently damage the ear's irreplaceable sensory cells
Elite performers use body tricks—not positive thinking—to kill panic fast
Shepard's delayed launch forced NASA to invent spacesuit plumbing on the fly
Painted fake eyes on cattle fool lions into abandoning hunts
How a baby reacts when a parent returns predicts lifelong relationship patterns
Astronauts' brains struggle to predict gravity again after returning from orbit
The most secretive facility of the Cold War is named after a town it isn't actually in
You have spent your entire life staring at a reversed copy of your own face, brushing…
A Tokyo train company issued a public apology in 2017 because one of its trains left…
In the driest desert on Earth lies a landscape so hostile it resembles Mars
