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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Astronaut. 2021 Sep 24;190:14–23. doi: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.09.035

Table 1:

Study characteristics and demographics of study participants, N = 87. Study characteristics include number of participants per campaign, study duration, and number of Cognition test bouts completed. Participants in HERA and HI-SEAS performed the Cognition battery on Apple iPads, while the remaining participants completed the battery on laptops.

Age Sex Education
Study N Study Duration # of Test Bouts per Subject Mean ± SD % Male % Masters or Higher
JSC Astronauts× 8 6.5 months 15 45.0 7.3 62.5 87.5
JSC Mission Control 11 6.5 months 15 30.0 6.1 45.5 45.4
HERA
 Campaign #1 16 1 week 7 38.3 7.7 37.5 75.0
 Campaign #2 15 2 weeks 16 31.3 10.7 60.0 93.3
 Campaign #3 16 30 days 18 36.6 7.2 56.2 81.3
HI-SEAS
 Campaign #1 5 4 months 12 29.0 2.7 40.0 40.0
 Campaign #2 6 8 months 24 32.0 5.3 50.0 83.3
 Campaign #3 6 12 months 33 30.8 4.2 50.0 100.0
ISS0 4 6 – 12 months 18 45.3 3.8 100.0 100.0
Overall 87 35.1 8.7 52.8 75.9

SD: standard deviation

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JSC Astronauts study duration ranged between 4.3 months to 8.2 months.

JSC MC study duration ranged between 5.5 months to 7.8 months.

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ISS study duration was 6 months (n=3) or 12 months (n=1). n = Number of comments.