Human Factors of Outer Space Production

Cheston, T. Stephen (EDT)

ISBN 10: 036717197X / ISBN 13: 9780367171971

Published by Routledge, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Factors of Outer Space Production
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036717197X
• ISBN 13: 9780367171971
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This book addresses the four basic areas of space work: the psychological aspects of working in space; the design of orbiting facilities; the production of food in space; and the economics of industrial activity in space, and delineates avenues for future research.

About the Author

T. Stephen Cheston, an historian by training, is associate dean of the graduate school at Georgetown University and vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Universities Space Research Association. He has been involved in spacerelated activities since 1975, has established a working group to assess the impact of space on society from a social science and humanities perspective, and was founder of the Institute for the Social Science Study of Space (1978). He is co-editor of Space Humanization Series, Vol. I (with D. Webb; Institute for the Social Science Study of Space, 1979) and author of various articles on space social science.