Norbert Kraft (Medical Doctor)
Norbert Kraft is an American Medical Doctor with over 17 years of experience in aviation and aerospace research and development .
His primary area of expertise is developing physiological and psychological countermeasures to combat the negative effects of long-duration spaceflight.
He has worked for the Russian Space Agency, the Japanese Space Agency and NASA.
Research
He was commander of a of an international mixed gender crew during a 110 day isolation chamber project and a spaceflight simulation experiment in Moscow, Russia.
Since 2002, Dr. Kraft’s research at NASA has concentrated on:
- developing new approaches to enhance team performance during exploration missions
- enabling distributed crews to respond to unanticipated problems
- enabling distributed crews to collaborate effectively despite the stress of with space missions
Publications
- Dr. Kraft is an author of over forty papers in the field of aerospace medicine, including a seminal paper on intercultural crew issues in long-duration spaceflight
- Types Of Relationships Formed By A Mixed Gender, Multinational Crew While In Isolation, Norbert Kraft, Heidi Binder, Terry Lyons, Raye Kass, date unknown
- The Uncharted Territories of Mars: Is Science Enough?, Norbert Kraft and Raye Kass, Huffington Post, 2012-07-03
Awards
- 2010 - Outstanding Accomplishments in the Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Aerospace Medicine
Qualifications and affiliations
- M.D. from University of Vienna, Austria
- Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association
- Team member at Mars One where he is responsible for designing the selection procedure for astronaut candidates