

Examples include improving effectiveness of the debriefings used within Mission Control by the Mission Operations Directorate and countermeasures for fatigue management. There are many success stories that can be presented where initial work begun as a BHP Research project, and funded through the Human Research Program, was fully implemented in operations or addressed an operational need. Similarly, these research portfolios are informed by operations to ensure investigations stay relevant given the dynamic environment of spaceflight. Ongoing operations supporting NASA's spaceflight goals benefit from the research portfolios that address risks to mission success. The Behavioral Health and Performance discipline at NASA Johnson Space Center is organized into two distinct Divisions (Biomedical Research and Environmental Science Division and Space and Clinical Operations Division) but is integrated and interrelated in its day-to-day work. d) Develop technologies to: 1) reduce risks and human systems resource requirements (e.g., crew time, mass, volume, power) and 2) ensure effective human-system integration across exploration mission.īehavioral Health and Performance at NASA JSC: Recent Successes and Future Plan for BHP Research and Operations b) Develop tools and technologies to prevent, monitor, and treat adverse outcomes. BHP Requirements: a) Characterize and assess risks (e.g., likelihood and consequences). BHP Ops provides ISS crews with services such as preflight training (e.g., psychological factors of LDM, psychological support, cross-cultural) preflight, in-flight, and postflight support services, including counseling for astronauts and their families and psychological support such as regular care packages and a voice-over IP phone system between crew members and their families to facilitate real-time one-on-one communication.īehavioral Health and Performance ( BHP) Work-Rest CyclesīHP Program Element Goal: Identify, characterize, and prevent or reduce behavioral health and performance risks associated with space travel, exploration and return to terrestrial life. The NASA Behavioral Health and Performance Operations Group ( BHP Ops) supports astronauts and their families before, during, and after a long-duration mission (LDM) on the ISS. The goal of NASA BHP is to identify, characterize, and prevent or reduce behavioral health and performance risks associated with space travel, exploration, and return to terrestrial life. Whitmire, Sandra Faulk, Jeremy Leveton, Lauren NASA Human Research Program Behavioral Health and Performance Element ( BHP)
