Although this programme was originally broadcast on 7 March 2017, I only got around to listening to it this week, so…
In Moving to the Red Planet, Claudia Hammond discusses the psychological challenges facing human travellers to Earth’s nearest neighbour, such as isolation, lack of privacy, and clashes among crew members.
While the physical challenges of a mission to Mars are pretty well understood now […] when it comes to the mind, we’re not really going to know how people will cope until we try it.
This is a nice complement to BBC2’s series Astronauts – Do You Have What It Takes?
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