STUDY, DEFINITION AND ANALYSIS OF PILOT/SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS FOR PLANETARY ENTRY EXPERIMENTS

摘要

The analysis and synthesis leading to a definition of an experimental program whereby pilot performance during planetary entry can be predicted is presented. This includes an analysis of the mission to determine the piloting skills required, an examination of the literature to determine the current state of knowledge concerning skill degradation under g-forces, and the definition of an experimental program designed to provide a model predictive of human performance during planetary entry. This program relies on ground-based experimentation (human centrifuge), the results to be correlated with a limited number of in-flight entry experiments.