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Topic: The Astronaut Diaries
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DavidH
Member Posts: 1217
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 01-30-2007 10:39 AM
   
Per CNN:
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- Dear Diary, the astronauts write.Well, maybe not in those exact words. But three times a week, the two U.S. astronauts aboard the international space station write down their secret thoughts in their personal journals. They write about their moods, their whines, how they feel, what they miss, whether they're sick of the food or aren't getting along with their roommates up in space. It may sound like high school, but it's really for science. These diaries will be reviewed by a researcher in California who wants to measure how spending six months cooped up with just two other people at a time, 220 miles above Earth, can affect outlook and morale.
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kosmonavtka
Member Posts: 170
From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 01-30-2007 02:47 PM
Wish the cosmonauts would post journals also!  |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-30-2007 03:00 PM
The question I have is...are they really "secret thoughts" if they know a researcher in California will read them? It's a good idea to study how long duration spaceflight affects astronauts living in close quarters with each other, but I would guess that there isn't a full disclosure of thoughts. Or maybe there will be..."Dear Diary, I really wish Suni Williams would tie her hair back, so as to give the rest of us some space of our own."  | |
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