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Teams need the right stuff
Successful long-term space journeys — like the one that awaits any astronauts heading to Mars — will hinge on good teamwork. Bruce Bower described what it would take to handle the psychological pressures of an extended space mission in “Extreme teams” (SN: 11/29/14, p. 22).
Elizabeth R. Hatcher is convinced that grasping group psychology is key to prepping astronauts for deep space travel. “Without the incorporation of such understandings into every step of project development, management and execution, I have difficulty imagining people traveling through space for months, deprived of everything tangible that they have ever cared about, interacting with each other throughout the mission and returning safely and sanely to planet Earth.”