The human side of space travel  Sunday 4 August 2013 11:30AM
(view full episode)  We’ve learned how to pee in space and how
to prepare pre-packaged meals, but if we’re serious about long
distance inter-planetary travel, there’s still a lot more we
need to work out about the psychology and physiology of living
and working in zero-gravity.  And as we’ll hear, some of what we
thought we knew about staying healthy in space could actually
prove counterproductive.  Add comment   Antony Funnell: We've
done quite a bit on space on Future Tense over the years. Hi,
Antony Funnell here. And we've touched on the psychology and
physiology of space travel, but not in a significant way.
'Touched on it' is probably about right. So today we're going to
fill that gap.  The questions we're posing are how well are
humans equipped for long-distance space exploration, and what
can be done to address our deficiencies?  You might think that
after 50-odd years mucking about in space we'd got it all down
pat, but you'd be wrong. And i