Clayton Anderson
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jan
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Those are things that NASA's pretty good about thinking about and planning for.
But as we get into this new time of commercial spaceflight, it kind of opens that window of the things we need to think about and prepare for.
In a place like the space shuttle where someone needs to come out, is that something that is often talked about?
It's not often talked about.
It's happened before on a shuttle mission.
There was a situation which then led to astronauts like me having to put a padlock on the hatch in the mid-deck so that it couldn't be opened without purposeful operations.
And if you think about humans traveling together in a small, confined space, you know, I don't know how small small is or how large a spaceship traveling to Mars would be.
But you're putting people in a can for six to nine months to get to a planet where they can't even see Earth anymore.
The psychological aspects of this are critical to me.
You have the issue of depression.
You have the issue of sexual tension.
You have these medical issues, right?
If you have a medical situation, do you have a little room where the tools and the table and the things are available for you?
We haven't gotten that far yet.
And those are going to be critical things if we're going to become, as Elon Musk says, an interplanetary species.
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