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Houston We Have a Podcast

Hazard 2: Isolation

Houston We Have a Podcast

Katie Konans

Science

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Tom Williams leads a research team that looks into isolation and confinement, focusing on habitability and behavioral health and performance risks to spaceflight. This is part two of a five-part series on the hazards of human spaceflight. HWHAP Episode 58.

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Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

0:05.0

episode 58, Isolation. This is part two of our five-part series on the Hazards of Human Space

0:10.9

Flight. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today. On this

0:14.0

podcast we bring in the experts, NASA scientists, engineers, and astronauts all to

0:17.4

let you know the coolest information about what's going on right here at

0:20.0

NASA. So today we consider another hazard of human space flight, isolation and

0:24.5

confinement. We're talking with Tom Williams, element scientists for the human

0:28.5

factors and behavioral performance in the human research program.

0:33.2

He focuses on areas like habitability and behavioral health and performance risks to

0:37.5

spaceflight in addition to many other areas.

0:40.4

He leads a research team that looks into the hazards of human spaceflight, including isolation.

0:45.0

So with no further delay, let's go light speed and jump right ahead to our talk with Dr. Tom Williams.

0:50.0

Enjoy. at the county. Mark.

1:03.0

The launch to Mid-Life

1:05.0

Mid-Life-Life-Men-Men

1:06.0

The Red.

1:07.0

Here she goes. Isn't we have a podcast? Okay, Tom, thank you for coming here today to talk about the second of our five hazards. This one's on isolation.

1:22.0

Appreciate you coming on.

1:24.0

Very glad to be here.

1:25.0

Thank you.

1:26.0

So this one is interesting and this one is a lot of, when I think of isolation, I think of a lot of

1:31.0

songs, you know, like David Bowie, you think of space lot of songs you know like David Bowie you think of space

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