SPACE EXPLORATION
DR. JASON KRING BELIEVES THAT THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS OF HUMANS WILL BE THE LIMITING FACTOR OF LONG-DURATION MANNED SPACE EXPEDITIONS, NOT OUR BIOLOGY OR ENGINEERING PROBLEMS.Dr. Jason Kring is an Assistant Professor and joined Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in August of 2005. His interests include spaceflight human factors and behavioral health and human performance in extreme environments.
He is the current president of the Society for Human Performance in Extreme Environments (HPEE) and coordinates our student chapter for that group. He is also interested in team/crew performance and cultural factors in aviation and aerospace.
Kring believes that the psychological limitations of humans will be the limiting factor of long-duration manned space expeditions, not our biology or engineering problems.
In long-term study of crew isolation conducted on Earth,the Mars500 experiment, Kring found some very striking factors.
