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Human Factors
Crew performance, mission operations, space history, policy and the human consequences of exploration.


In 1971, a struggling nightclub drummer named Daisuke Inoue built the first karaoke…

Murray Bowen’s family projection theory describes anxiety moving through relationships

After a Hollywood film starring Leonardo DiCaprio put an obscure Thai island beach on…

When FIFA gave the 1994 World Cup to the United States, it did so on one condition

Mitophagy is the cellular housekeeping that dismantles broken mitochondria

The Moon has been three days away for more than half a century, and almost no one has…

Nunchi is a Korean cultural practice that overlaps with separately studied…

The Stichting INGKA Foundation, which owns IKEA

Loneliness and chosen solitude differ in perceived agency and arousal

The Eiffel Tower, now the most photographed structure on Earth, was built in 1889 as a…
