Analysis of Crew Functions as an Aid in Space Station Interior Layout 860934
The Space Station must be designed to facilitate all of the functions that its crew will perform, both on-duty and off-duty, as efficiently and comfortably as possible. This paper examines the functions to be performed by the Space Station crew in order to make inferences about the design of an interior layout that optimizes crew productivity. Twenty-seven crew functions were defined, as well as five criteria for assessing relationships among all pairs of those functions. Hierarchical clustering and multidimensional scaling techniques were used to visually summarize the relationships. A key result was the identification of two dimensions for describing the configuration of crew functions: “Private-Public” and “Group-Individual”. Seven specific recommendations for Space Station interior layout were derived from the analyses.
Citation: Steinberg, A., Tullis, T., and Bied, B., "Analysis of Crew Functions as an Aid in Space Station Interior Layout," SAE Technical Paper 860934, 1986, https://doi.org/10.4271/860934. Download Citation
Author(s):
A. L. Steinberg, Thomas S. Tullis, Barbra Bied
Affiliated:
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. Huntington Beach, CA
Pages: 10
Event:
Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Aerospace Environmental Systems-Proceedings of the Sixteenth Ices Conference-P-177
Related Topics:
Spacecraft
Productivity
Identification
SAE MOBILUS
Subscribers can view annotate, and download all of SAE's content.
Learn More »