Dr. Alice Gorman (Associate Professor of Space Archaeology)
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Mental health is one of the big issues that NASA identifies with human spaceflight. People are cooped up in this tiny little space. They're working incredibly hard all the time. It's very difficult to sleep well on the International Space Station. So those effects cumulatively could add up to you feeling a little bit down.
We would have seen no evidence of this from them, of course, but they've got to have been a bit gutted when they couldn't get home as planned. We know that they probably, on the one hand, they want to come home. On the other hand, they get to do more science up there. They get to experience more sunrises and sunsets, which happen every 90 minutes on the International Space Station.