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DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE FOR LONG DURATION SPACE FLIGHT MISSIONS USING A CREW SYSTEMS INTERACTIONS MODEL (CSIM)
Author(s) -
Upshaw Kathy
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1994.tb01708.x
Subject(s) - crew , process (computing) , spacecraft , systems engineering , duration (music) , life support system , engineering , perspective (graphical) , set (abstract data type) , isolation (microbiology) , space (punctuation) , aeronautics , computer science , operations research , aerospace engineering , artificial intelligence , art , literature , programming language , operating system , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
The confinement and isolation of the crew of a long duration manned space flight mission such as the planned International Space Station or proposed expeditions to the Moon or Mars cause the social environment and the crew capabilities and limitations to be extremely influential to mission success. The systems engineering process must be executed within the constraints imposed by the system environment (including the social, technical, economic, and political (STEP) factors) as well as those constraints imposed by the personnel who must design, operate, and maintain the system. This process could be facilitated if the diverse sociological and psychological models were integrated to define a set of requirements for spacecraft design and criteria for crew selection and training. A Crew/System Interactions Model (CSIM) is presented as a tool for synthesizing and linking psychological and sociological theories. The CSIM would serve as a reference for improving and refining the causal relationships describing effects of crew actions and behaviors on the system, allowing the development of design criteria that are better tailored to the mission needs and operational requirements.