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With the departure of Expedition 46 on March 2, the ISS complement was reduced to three. But not for long. On March 19, Soyuz TMA-20M docked with the orbiting outpost, carrying Expedition 47 crewmembers Aleksei Ovchinin, Oleg Skripochka and Jeffrey Williams (see Appendix IV). Once again, it was a crew with a heavy military background, with Ovchinin a retired air force officer and Williams a retired army officer. Saying goodbye to old crewmates and saying hello to new ones is one of the many challenges of the long duration spaceflight game. Whereas on a nuclear submarine you know you’re stuck with the same faces for months on end, on an orbiting outpost those faces change, and that means you have to go through the process of getting to know one another all over again. Not that big a deal, but a little disruptive all the same, no matter how well trained you are.
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If you are interested in the Bigelow story, the go-to reference publication is Bigelow Aerospace, written by the author, and published by Springer-Praxis.
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Now there may be some who think the problem can be solved through the use of sleep and wake-promoting medications and you would be right. Sort of. At the time of writing, sleep medication use is almost 20 times higher for astronauts than is consumed by those living on Earth. In most cases, that medication is taken when an astronaut is suffering circadian misalignment, suggesting that other countermeasures (light, or chronobiotics such as melatonin) are simply not working.
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Seedhouse, E. (2017). Principia Part 2. In: TIM PEAKE and BRITAIN'S ROAD TO SPACE. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57907-8_7
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