Which mental challenges can we expect?

Monotony – a many months’ space flight provides far fewer stimuli than we are used to in our daily life. Interpersonal tensions – spending a lot of time with the same group of people, without the possibility of “taking a break”, is a real challenge. third-quarter syndrome – when half of the mission has passed, most people are not pleased with the fact that “the same amount of time is left and that’s it”; their spirits tend to sink considerably for this reason.

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