Thse insights have been pulled from the individual experiences of astronauts and cosmonauts recorded in published first person accounts — journals, diaries, debriefs, and post-flight reflections.As this database includes the personal, subjective experiences from a diversity of flyers, they may sometimes contradict, but together they provide a more holistic, if messy, picture of life in space. To learn more about how these categories were developed, please see this related publication.
“I also think it is best to give people their space and not push the social things on people every day. We all need a break from each other at times.”
“It is going to be a much, much, much different crew experience when you don't have a space ship sufficiently large to ever get away from each other during the day.”