SpaceX's Grasshopper VTVL takes a 40 meter hop

_Tombstone_ wrote: »

Who will go and whats it gonna cost to get them to go is nearly most interesting part.

The residents will answer questionnaires and also be subjected to sensors such as wrist bands and smartphone applications that track their heart rates and other physiological responses to their situations. Eventually, the researchers' assessment model will be tested in a spacecraft simulator at NASA in Houston.

The Johns Hopkins researchers hope to determine, for example, not just how someone performs under pressure and what they contribute to the group, but how the group responds to that person.

If their voice is too loud, for exmaple, "they may not be great to have on a long mission," said Rosen, an associate professor in Johns Hopkins' department of anesthesiology and critical-care medicine and a faculty member in the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality.

Rosen said he and the team at Rice have long studied such team-based performance in high-risk environments, and he expects to use the findings not just to benefit NASA's astronaut selection process but perhaps to help customize doctor training at Johns Hopkins and beyond. Doctors with innate abilities in such stressful situations may need less time in training, while others may need more time and better coping mechanisms, he said.

The final tool won't be a one-size-fits-all assessment but a method of picking the proper team, with each member bringing complementary characteristics.

"What does this team to Mars need to be successful?" Rosen asked. "The right mix of people."

SNAKEDOC wrote: »

I would imagine any trip to mars would be quite heavy on the social media side of things like the ISS with constant twitter updates and videos so the crew of a mats mission would be kept fairly ocuppied with that plus all the experimentation work to be carried out while flying through unknown space for the first time. There would be more than enough work to keep an astronaut crew busy for the six month flight and given the strides being made in more efficent engines that journey time could be cut again. The year in space mission is drawing to a close and thats weightless where as a mars mission would be even partial artificial gravity so in my view no biggy.

SNAKEDOC wrote: »

Im not talking chatting more like video updates and recieving videos from people back on earth. I know that there are delays of roughly 25 minutes for roundtrip comms from mars but when talking about astronauts goin nuts while going to mars the fact that its a new type of mission and the unknown aspect of going out beyond the moons orbit for the first time will have the astronauts kept busy and with proper marketing a bigger interest from folks on earth then more of a fan base i suppose to reply to. Emails and videos. I dont think it would be a case of astronauts goin bonkers out of bordom. As i said earlier the year in space is nearing its end no sign of him goin nuts yet. I think the physicological side is a bit over stated for astronauts who want to be there. Different for those who would rather be somewhere else.

On Mars and beyond, the experience will be taken to a new level. Ponder this: how would it change your worldview if every person you laid eyes on for years was utterly necessary for your survival? That’s life on sMars, and that will be life on real Mars: distant and inhospitable, populated entirely by people you cannot live without, and who cannot live without you.

Mechanical solutions for getting a crew there and back alive will take shape as time and money allow. What cannot be engineered is people. Physically and mentally, emotionally and spiritually, we are the black boxes in this white dome bound for the red planet.

nokia69 wrote: »

Model X and S are large cars, too big for irish roads IMO, Model 3 will be a far better car in every way