Mission Ares Book Project
Human Factors and Behavioral Performance (HFBP) research is conducted by NASA to help prepare for successful long-duration space flights and manage the behavioral health effects of long-duration spaceflight. These effects include those related to isolation, confinement, sleep loss, personal conflicts and burn out. The human element in a mission to Mars will be decisive to its success or failure. How can a team of astronaut specialists be successfully assembled and trained to ensure the success of such a mission?
In Mission Ares authors Ishaan Kalluri and Siddharth Vikram tell an exciting and sometimes humorously tragic tale about what might happen when a team of astronauts on a long term space mission do not always work well together. More ominously there is a criminal mystery element embedded in the story which will challenge readers to reconsider the way they perceive astronauts. The people portrayed in these pages are not the disciplined, selfless kind of human beings we have come to expect astronauts to be.
I hope you enjoy this light hearted story which packs a very serious message and warning.
Bruce Callow
Lviv Ukraine, October 2023
Mission Ares Book 