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was completed in January of 1968, and as a result of the conclusions 

 and recommendations, the Tektite program was initiated and a Tek- 

 tite I mission formulated. 



The program has been of special interest to NASA in trying to ob- 

 tain data on crew performance during extended operational missions. 

 We feel that the environment in which the mission operated was in 

 many aspects a better test of man's adaptability to long space missions 

 than can be obtained throughout the chamber simulations. 



"With this brief introduction, I would like to introduce Mr. Eugene 

 Burcher, the NASA program director for Tektite, who will go into 

 more detail about the NASA interest and participation in this pro- 

 gram. 



Mr. Lennon. Thank you. 



STATEMENT OF EUGENE S. BTJRCHER, PROGRAM DIRECTOR FOR 

 TEKTITE FOR THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE 

 ADMINISTRATION 



INIr. Burcher. Mr. Chairman, members, NASA's three main interests 

 in Tektite project were from the behavioral program standpoint which 

 was to evaluate the dynamics of small groups; the biomedical pro- 

 gram, to collect biomedical data on the particular mission conditions : 

 and the habitability evaluation where we looked at various aspects 

 which could be extrapolated to extended manned space flight. 



The behavioral program itself evaluated indi^-idual and group be- 

 havior and performance capability while accomplishing — and the key 

 words were — a real mission — in other words, not makeshift or planned 

 activities — over long duration in a stressful confined environment. 



Some of the behavioral objectives are listed here : To try to get time- 

 cost information on a crew of four scientists and to relate individual 

 and group behavior on an overall mission performance and so forth. 



Some of the means of evaluating and gathering this particular data 

 are these particular aspects. Psychomotor testing in which we used a 

 piece of equipment which is going to be actually used on some of our 

 long duration flights to evaluate performance of the crew. 



Automatic data recording and audio-video, on which I will go into 

 a little more detail later. This consisted of closed circuit TV cameras 

 and open-circuit microphones : direct physiological recording done by 

 EEG methods, and I might add that this EEG is the same tape that 

 will take analysis of the sleep on some of the Apollo flights and, of 

 course, diaries and report forms. 



Here is a picture of the inside of the behavioral van with two of the 

 monitors monitoring the four screens that were connected to the four 

 compartments of the habitat. They took the data down, punched it on 

 punch cards for later evaluation in Washington. 



Some of the preliminary- behavioral conclusions were. one. overall 

 that the crew of four people could live for an extended period of time 

 in confinement doing work ; various aspects of the work performance. 



Something of interest here which could possibly be used in flights 

 is that there is a period of shakedown getting used to your habitat and 

 getting your equipment lined up before you actually enter into your 

 mission. 



