Space.com October 6, 2023
The mental health challenges of space travel are as important, if not more so, than issues of physical health.
World Space Week 2023 is here and Space.com is looking at the current state of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on astronomy and space exploration as the space age celebrates its 66th anniversary. Here, John Loeffler discusses how AI companions might help keep astronauts on deep space missions mentally healthy.
In one of the more light-hearted scenes of Christopher Nolan’s otherwise tension-filled film “Interstellar,” the four Endurance astronauts are lifting off on the movie’s mission to save humanity. Riding along with them is a quippy AI named TARS that jokes that it is looking forward to using them all as...