Investigators conducted behavioral health, human factors, and countermeasures experiments on the four crew members crowded into the 148-cubic-meter Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) to determine how confinement and isolation impacts cohabitation, teamwork, team cohesion, mood, performance and overall well-being.
Read: Simulating a Mission to the Geographos Asteroid
They were assigned operational tasks similar to those performed by astronauts on the International Space Station; however, the tasks were modified to emulate what might be required on a mission to an asteroid.
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