Team interactions, performance, and cohesion, as well as individual psychosocial states, are increasinglyrecognized and studied contributions to overall system performance, but few teams will ever liveand work together as closely for as long as those supporting proposed deep space missions like those toMars or the asteroids. Yet studying team dynamics and the factors which affect them during space explorationis extraordinarily challenging since no such team performance data yet exists. The members of thispanel are participating in various NASA-sponsored research efforts to explore long duration team interactionsin space exploration contexts. The lessons they are learning, as well as the techniques they are developingto study this challenging problem, will serve to inform not only human space exploration over thenext few decades, but also team performance and relationships in a wide variety of earth-based domains inwhich humans must work with each other to accomplish demanding tasks over the long term and/or in Isolated,Confined, and Extreme (ICE) environments.
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