Psychology of Space Exploration
rockets for both orbital and suborbital flights. The CMC Aerospace Psychology
Laboratory has conducted research in simulated spaceflights and recently designed a
spaceflight simulator for the space museum at Alamogordo, New Mexico. He may be
reached at [email protected], telephone 909-607-7986, or at Claremont Graduate
University, Harper Hall East, B5, 160 East Tenth Street, Claremont, CA 91711.
Kasia E. Wilk graduated from the University of British Columbia with her B.Sc.
in behavioral neuroscience, and she completed her M.Sc. degree in consciousness
and transpersonal psychology at John Moores University in Liverpool, England. She
has studied psychological effects amongst astronaut and cosmonaut crewmembers
during outer space missions in the Reactions to Environmental Stress and Trauma
(REST) laboratory of Dr. Peter Suedfeld in the Department of Psychology at the
University of British Columbia; she also has worked in other areas of psychology
research including twin personality traits and the effects of conditioned epileptical
seizures in rats. She is planning on pursuing a Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology and
hopes to work with various humanitarian organizations that help children in diffi-
cult environments. She is currently a researcher at the Youth Forensic Psychiatric
Services Research and Evaluation Department under the Ministry of Children and
Family Development in Burnaby, British Columbia, studying the effectiveness of
provincial treatment programs used in rehabilitating young offenders.
Kimberly J. Willis graduated with her B.S. in physical sciences and a concen-
tration in geology from the University of Houston, Clear Lake, in 1982, and she was
granted her M.S. in 1986. She also earned an M.S. in secondary education from the
University of Houston, Clear Lake, in 1990 and holds a Lifetime Texas Provisional
Certification in secondary education, Earth science, and physical science. She joined
the Earth Observations group in 1990 and was responsible for the metadata assem-
bly of the Earth-viewing photography taken by Space Shuttle astronauts. In 1991,
she became the task lead for metadata assembly of astronaut photography of Earth.
By 1996, Willis had conducted program planning, operations, and data analysis for
the NASA/Mir Earth Observations Program. She also established and documented
operational procedures for the Crew Earth Observations (CEO) on the ISS. At the
same time, she participated in Space Shuttle mission planning, astronaut training in