Groups in Isolation and Confinement: Environments and Experiences

Abstract

One of the most fascinating aspects of ``space psychology'' may be the fact that from the beginning it has drawn heavily upon research on environments whose significant features were in some way considered to be analogous, similar, or equivalent to space vehicles. Obviously, there was no way to avoid this: after all, planning for all of the aspects of spaceflight had to occur before anyone had any actual experience in space. I remember, for instance, participating in North Atlantic Treaty Organization and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) symposia on long-duration missions back in the mid-1960s (e.g., Suedfeld, 1968).