provided in early station designs, but special efforts should be made to develop team sports and facilities. 6. Crew Safety The hazardous nature of working in space and the lack of an emergency escape vehicle may create fears that interfere with mission accomplishment or achieving a satisfactory lifestyle while on-orbit. Tensions could lead to interpersonal bickering, criticism, hostility, and distrust that results in obsessive concern with the manner in which colleagues accomplish their duties. Social divisions, ‘old hands' vs. ‘new hands', may lead to repressive treatment of new arrivals that embodies impossible-to-achieve standards of duty performance and safety. The panel regards this situation as being undesirable and feels that it might be alleviated, at least to some extent, by provisions for emergency escape from the station. It was regarded as desirable that group survival take precedence over individual survival in the value hierarchy; altruistic self-sacrifice should be regarded as an acceptable alternative to group destruction. The culture should also provide high value for optimal safety and efficiency in duty performance and should bestow recognition and prestige for exemplary performance. Informal sanctions should reinforce these values on a regular basis and should also discourage individual self-interest. Because crew safety will be a matter of primary importance, the panel felt that substandard performance must be a matter for official concern and be subject to both formal and informal sanctions; substandard duty performance that endangers the crew should occupy a special place in the judicial system which develops in space. The panel recognized the possibility that an ideological terrorist might be willing to sacrifice his own life in order to destroy a space station in furtherance of a political goal on Earth. However, the panel did not favour extreme measures to preclude such a possibility. Rigid control of worker activities, constant surveillance, and covert infiltration of the work force by individuals whose duties involve spying on other workers, were all regarded as sources of distrust, interpersonal hostility and conflict. Rigid psychological, social and political screening of worker applicants was favoured by the panel as the most appropriate means for controlling the problem, along with training and conditioning aimed at enabling workers to rationalize such dangers as being minimal and requiring little more than normal concern with the activities of colleagues. Lunar Habitat Prognosis 1. Interpersonal Behaviour Evolving from the modular construction model of space stations, the initial lunar habitat (lunar base) is also likely to be modular in nature and may contain little in the way of creature comforts. The interior of the habitat may be drab and monotonous, failing to meet human needs for variety, sensory stimulation, social interaction, and individual expression or innovation. If such a pattern is maintained as the base is enlarged and the work force expands, it is likely to preclude development of a permanent human population on the lunar surface and to necessitate very high costs for worker crew rotation, retention and training. It is preferable that the lunar base contain, from its earliest developmental stages, an environment which will foster a satisfying and stimulating human lifestyle. There should be comfortable dwelling units and adequate support facilities, schools, hospitals,
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