{"id":5113,"date":"2012-10-19T08:09:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T12:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=5113"},"modified":"2012-10-19T08:09:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T12:09:14","slug":"ucf-teams-with-nasa-to-train-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-teams-with-nasa-to-train-astronauts\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF teams with NASA to train astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three UCF professors recently won a $1.2 million grant from NASA to do research on teamwork training for the purpose of sending a crew of astronauts to Mars by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Psychology professors Eduardo Salas and Kim Jentsch along with Stephen Fiore, an assistant professor from the department of Philosophy, wrote a proposal to NASA in response to the space organization\u2019s call about 3-4 years ago for researchers on team cohesion, and their group was one of the few chosen winners to receive funding for this project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere at UCF, we are probably the world\u2019s experts on teamwork, team performance and team training,\u201d Salas said.<\/p>\n<p>Helping the future Mars-bound team of astronauts help themselves while on their space trip is the main goal, said Salas and Jentsch.\u00a0 Their concerns mainly consist of how the team of 5-7 astronauts is going to stick together. So far, they have interviewed 12-15 people that have been in the international space station for at least 3 months so as to obtain a better idea of teamwork needs.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-19-at-7.59.20-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5114\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-19 at 7.59.20 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-19-at-7.59.20-AM-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-19-at-7.59.20-AM-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-19-at-7.59.20-AM-299x197.png 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-19-at-7.59.20-AM.png 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou give them strategies so that they can self-correct any problems they have, that they can adjust what they are doing based on a number of probes or debriefing that we help them conduct,\u201d Salas said. \u201cThis is all done by themselves on their way there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jentsch agrees, and also said it\u2019s not possible to train for everything that could go wrong, since the unknown gets in the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to have to train a lot more people than they plan on sending,\u201d Jentsch said. \u201cThey\u2019re probably going to have a group of people and say \u2018we\u2019re going to select out of these 50.\u2019 It\u2019s kind of like Big Brother or Survivor; they\u2019re going to get voted off one at a time, so it\u2019s almost like training and a tryout at the same time to see who can get along with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The professors also work by telling NASA in what order it makes sense to train. For example, the astronauts can\u2019t be trained right away to learn how to work the vehicle they are going to journey in, as technology is constantly changing, so there is no certainty as far as that is concerned. The three are trying to identify what they\u2019re sure the astronauts need to know, such as team skills and regulation of stress.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about the professors work with NASA, please <a href=\"http:\/\/knightnews.com\/2012\/09\/ucf-teams-up-with-nasa-for-mission-to-mars\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three UCF professors recently won a $1.2 million grant from NASA to do research on teamwork training for the purpose of sending a crew of astronauts to Mars by 2030. 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