Mars One
Humanity's Next Great Adventure: Inside the First Human Settlement on Mars
Autor*in: Hooft, Gerard; Kraft, Norbert; Kass, James R.
Jahr: 2016
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 240 S.
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- Will we one day walk on Mars? A book that “will feed the imagination of anyone with an interest in space or the future of humanity on other worlds" (Foreword Reviews).  In 2011, Mars One announced its intentions to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars beginning as early as 2024. Two years later, it launched its astronaut-selection program and received thousands of applications.  Now you can step inside the experience of these astronaut pioneers and explore the various human dimensions of Mars One’s planned expeditions. Edited by Mars One’s chief medical officer and head of crew selection and training, as well as crew selection and training committee members, this collection of essays from scientists, psychologists, and more provides a behind-the-scenes look at the process and criteria used to choose candidates, and predictions about their future lives on Mars. With a foreword by a Nobel Prizeâ€"winning physicist, Mars One also includes in-depth discussions of:  The essential skills and training the Mars One astronauts will need to journey to and survive on Marsâ€"from technical and medical know-how to the interpersonal skills necessary for working in confined quarters so far from home The challenges of the selection and training process Inside information, including images, on the planned Mars One habitats and colonization timeline What settlers can expect on Mars, from daily work activities in a hostile environment to communication with Earth and options for leisure time This book also includes excerpts from candidate questionnaires, allowing readers to enter the minds of prospective Martians like never before. Â
- Norbert Kraft, MD, received the NASA Group Achievement Award 2013, one of the most prestigious awards a group can receive, presented to selected groups who have distinguished themselves by making outstanding contributions to the NASA mission. In 2010, Kraft received the 2010 Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in the Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Aerospace Medicine. He has over twenty years of experience in aviation and aerospace research and development. His primary area of expertise is developing physiological and psychological countermeasures to combat the negative effects of long-duration spaceflight. Kraft’s experiences span Europe, Asia, and the United States, where he has worked for several international space agencies, including the Russian Space Agency and the Japanese Space Agency. Kraft is an author of over forty papers in the field of aerospace medicine, including a seminal paper on intercultural crew issues in long-duration spaceflight. He has an MD from University of Vienna, Austria, and is a fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association. James R. Kass, MD, has been working in the field of human spaceflight for more than thirty years. He was an investigator on the first Spacelab mission in the early 80s in the field of neurophysiology. In the decade following, he gained industrial experience at several aerospace companies in Germany, before joining the European Space Agency at its research and technology centre, ESTEC, in the Netherlands. Kass has trained astronauts and worked on the ground operations teams for several Spacelab/Space Shuttle and MIR missions (including the tragic STS-107), with crews from Russia, United States, Middle and Far East, and several European countries. He has also worked with cosmonauts of the former Salyut space station and astronauts of the first US space station, Skylab. He has participated as scientist and reviewer in several isolation experiments investigating psychology of long-duration isolation, as one will certainly encounter on Mars. Raye Kass, MD, professor of applied human sciences at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, currently spearheads group theory courses in both the undergraduate and graduate level. Kass has been highlighted frequently by both national and international press agencies for both her space sciences and group theory research. Kass has also been invited to be involved in numerous space research projects in conjunction with the Canadian Space Agency and NASA, including the Psychological Experiment/Training Programme for the CAPSULS Mission held in Canada, the SFINCCS mission held in Russia, and the NSBRI (National Space Biomedical Research Institute) Ground-based Research Project with the NASA Ames Research Centre in the United States. Kass is the author of Theories of Small Group Development, as well as the coauthor of three other books on group theory.
Titelinformationen
Titel: Mars One
Autor*in: Hooft, Gerard; Kraft, Norbert; Kass, James R.
Herausgeber: Kraft, Norbert ; Kass, James R. ; Kass, Raye ; Kraft, Norbert, M.D.
Verlag: Perseus Book Group
ISBN: 9781940363936
Kategorie: Sachmedien & Ratgeber, Wissenschaft & Technik
Format: ePub
Max. Ausleihdauer: 21 Tage