{"id":3927568,"date":"2026-08-19T10:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/vr-supports-research-into-spaceflight-related-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:02:23","slug":"vr-supports-research-into-spaceflight-related-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/vr-supports-research-into-spaceflight-related-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"VR supports research into spaceflight-related mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As humanity gets closer to the possibility of long-term interplanetary travel, psychologists have started raising concerns about astronauts&#8217; mental health. Researchers at Texas A&amp;M University conducted research on sailors in an isolated environment to address these concerns using virtual reality technology and by introducing other senses to the experience, such as smell and touch.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-vr-spaceflight-mental-health.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As humanity gets closer to the possibility of long-term interplanetary travel, psychologists have started raising concerns about astronauts&#8217; mental health. Researchers at Texas A&amp;M University conducted research on sailors in an isolated environment to address these concerns using virtual reality technology and by introducing other senses to the experience, such as smell and touch. <\/p>\n<p>Go [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}