Conceptual Approaches to the Cosmonaut Selection System in Terms of Forthcoming Tasks of Future Manned Space Programs.

Abstract

The urgent need to analyze the current cosmonaut selection system from the point of view of developing a set of requirements for a professional who will have to master a wide range of tasks for future flights beyond Earth's orbits is associated with insufficient knowledge of the features of forthcoming crew activities, working conditions and associated risks for human performance and health. The existing difficulties can be overcome using the methodology of job analysis with an emphasis on the previously not mastered functioning modes of human-machine systems, new instru-mentarium for task performing and humans’ adaptive capacity. Infor-mation technology resources for improving a number of selection proce-dures are discussed in the paper.