SPACE FOR
MENTAL HEALTH
Astronaut emotional health / Research programme

The human dimension of space.

Investigating emotional health, human connection and life in extreme environments.

Astronaut artwork with the ERAS mark illuminated across the visorERAS artwork / Patrick Stacey
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Featured research

Emotional Responses
of Astronauts

Exploring how social, organisational and technological conditions shape emotional life in analogue missions.

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Conceptual illustration linking experience, environment and emotion
Mission studies / From the research journal

Understanding life
beyond the familiar.

The research journal

Latest perspectives.

June 3, 2022

Lift Off!

Having submitted a grant application to the British Academy in 2021, we began, officially, 1st June 2022. The team was: Dr Stacey remains from the original line-up and is PI at ESA.

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A wider perspective
on human health.

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