Study through diary

Three times a week, two American astronauts operating on the international space station (ISS) will record their feelings and thoughts in the journal. Sunita Williams and Michael Lopez - Alegria are called to acknowledge the truth.

Conditions attached: their diary lines will not be published on NASA's website as usual, but will be transmitted to each Jack Stuster researcher working in Santa - Barbara, California state.

Sunita Williams (left) and Michael Lopez - Alegria ( Source: ntvmsnbc ) These diaries will be dissected and analyzed to better understand what happens to people living 350km from the globe. This is also the way people prepare for people on further trips, to the Moon or Mars.

For ground scientists, this type of journaling is important because it helps to understand the psychology of astronauts living in a narrow space with international colleagues during periods of up to six months. .

So far, after more than three years of research, some remarkable things have been noted, such as US and Russian astronauts who have never worked together on the ISS while the attitude is unconcerned. The work is very dangerous in space when astronauts are forced to perform complex tasks. Or astronauts often suffer from the so-called "three-fourths sadness", which starts to become more pessimistic at the end of their stay in space.

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