Since 1977 the Department of Aviation and Space Psychology of the DLR has been regularly involved in astronaut (payload specialist) selection on a European as well as on a national level. For several of these selection campaigns the DLR has devised and applied its own test system consisting of a combination of paper pencil tests, apparatus tests, and personal interview. The DLR selection procedures incorporate diverse factors of performance (e.g., perception, memory, multiple task performance) as well as of personality (e.g., social capability, motivation, stress resistance). With the plan for a European participation in the Space Station Freedom new challenges are posed for the selection of all kinds of astronauts because of the specific demands of long duration space flights. These new challenges are discussed with regard to the problems of astronauts and recent developments at the DLR testing center concerning feasible psychological selection criteria and test methods for astronaut selection are presented.
Psychological Selection of Astronauts: Recent Developments at the DLR Testing Center in Hamburg (Fed. Republic of Germany)
1990
5 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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