Which mental challenges can we expect? Monotony – a many months’ space flight provides far fewer
Third-quarter syndrome – when half of the mission has
stimuli than we are used to in our daily life. Interpersonal
passed, most people are not pleased with the fact that
tensions – spending a lot of time with the same group of
“the same amount of time is left and that’s it”; their
people, without the possibility of “taking a break”, is a real
spirits tend to sink considerably for this reason.
challenge.
Agnieszka Skorupa, PhD Psychologist dealing with research on human behaviour in extreme situations She has taken part in survival camps, mountain and polar expeditions to Spitsbergen and expeditions to Amazonia Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of Silesia in Katowice
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