Hi, it's Chris Marshall back for another episode of For All Mankind, the official podcast.

I want to talk about stress, space stress.

You know that feeling you get when you've spent months on a lunar base with two other astronauts and everyone is starting to get on each other's nerves?

On set, Joel Kinnaman and myself spent two weeks of 14-hour days acting as astronauts who were stuck on a lunar base.

We both came out of that experience relatively unscathed, well, except a broken arm for me.

But our crewmate, Gordo Stevens, played by Michael Dorman, was really affected by

the confinement in isolation and is a mere shell of himself at the top of season two.

It wasn't an easy place to live. Not a lot of things went wrong. It's a lot of turmoil.

Sometimes the best of plans falls apart on you.

Best equipment fails.

Even the best people.

You know, sometimes it all just falls apart on you.

For this episode, I'm going to explain Sometimes it all just falls apart on you.

For this episode, I'm going to explore the psychological challenges associated with long-duration space missions

and the ways we can deal with them.

I spoke with Jack Stester, space anthropologist,

who has done some super interesting work. I was one of many who recommended

that the space station should have windows because it was pretty predictable that the astronauts would

enjoy watching Earth pass beneath them. And I spoke with astronaut Kaye Hire about the importance of

taking care of your team by taking care of yourself.

Part of the expeditionary training is to be aware of your own health and needs when you need to take a

break, when you need some water, whatever, because if you get all dehydrated or you get hurt,

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