The new project could aid NASA's crewed push to Mars.
The International Space Station as pictured from a SpaceX Crew Dragon during a November 2021 fly around. will focus on the orbiting habitat as a"microsociety in a miniworld."
"It's not that the ISS and how people live on it hasn't been studied extensively; there's a huge amount of research into what they call 'human factors,' Gorman told Space.com."A lot of it is biomedical or psychological, with a few sociological studies. But no one has taken an archaeological approach before."
"The advantage of archaeology is that it shows us what people actually do, rather than what they think, or say, they do," she said."We're looking for patterns that develop over years or decades." , migrated across the world and experienced radical transformations in society and technology over the eons. The aims of the research, Gorman said, are to examine how space fits into these adaptations and to determine the next stage of adaptation.
"It's my favorite part of what we are doing — trying to come up with new questions and new approaches and methods," Walsh told Space.com.
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