Abstract Space Tourism is a topic of ever-growing discussion as commercial space providers are closer to opening opportunities for aspiring spaceflight participants. The current efforts on defining requirements for commercial space flight crews and participants, in the United States, are mainly safety-based and take into consideration the minimization of risks both from an operational and regulatory perspective. There is however a need to open discussions on space passenger experience design and create a paradigm that covers this novel role. A design approach is outlined to identify areas of study that already attempt to address human factors aspects in astronautical applications. This paper employs the PEAR model to identify high-level passenger-environment interactions that ought to be considered within the context of tourism. Using Virgin Galactic’s concept of operations as a baseline, the model is used to gather the human factors that appear influential in passenger experience as well as methods to evaluate them.
Considerations for Passenger Experience in Space Tourism
2019-06-06
12 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Space tourism , Commercial space , Passenger experience , Human factors in transportation , Spacecraft operations , Astronautics , Aerospace design , Human-Centered design Engineering , Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering , User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction , Cognitive Psychology , Computational Intelligence
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