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Human Factors
Crew performance, mission operations, space history, policy and the human consequences of exploration.
In 1610, the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei pointed a small telescope at Jupiter…
Stanford psychologist Laura Carstensen found that when older adults were asked to…
When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched into orbit on May 18, 1991, he was a…
We keep asking whether humans can survive on Mars and skipping the more important…
Czech speleologists exploring a cave system in southern Albania in 2021 discovered the…
A self-taught Russian amateur astronomer named Filipp Romanov has been finding…
By 2035, the global space economy is predicted to reach roughly $1.8 trillion in annual…
In May 2008, months before the global financial crisis tore through commodity markets…
Nearly four kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, Russian scientists in 2012 drilled…
Seven miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, in the deepest place on Earth, American explorer…
