NASA space psychology subjects ending 8 months of isolation

[Warren DeMontague]

7. I'm not trying to soft-pedal the challenges, don't get me wrong.

It's something to consider, and obviously as per this experiment and others, NASA is.

Also worth noting, humans have logged extended time in space- 438 days for a Cosmonaut, and Scott Kelly did 350.

https://www.space.com/11337-human-spaceflight-records-50th-anniversary.html

The romantically compatible couple idea has been proposed more than once, and yeah, I think it makes sense on several levels. I'm fairly certain my wife is the only person on the planet who can stand to be around me for a super-extended period of time.

I just don't think this is the kind of situation where we need to be casting about for convicts to work off their 5 year sentence for pot smoking, or whatever we fill our prison cells for, by shipping them off to a bio-dome. Like I said, there are a lot of people who want to participate in this work. I couldn't do it, to be sure but there are many things I couldn't do.

As far as faster travel times, certainly that would change the dynamics of the trip in a big, and good way:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/nasas-longshot-bet-on-a-revolutionary-rocket-may-be-about-to-pay-off/