NASA Psychologists Prepare Astronauts for the Extreme Isolation of a Three-Year Mission to Mars
Interview by Paul Salfen
2024—“Space: The Longest Goodbye,” a riveting documentary investigating life-in-space psychology, directed by Ido Mizrahy (“Gored”), written and produced by Mizrahy and Nir Sa’ar (“Love It Was Not”), and produced by Valda Witt (“Gored”) and Paul Cadieux (“The Triplets of Belleville”), premieres on INDEPENDENT LENS May 6, 2024. This thoughtful documentary explores how the monumental task of keeping astronauts mentally stable in space is tested to the extreme in anticipation of NASA’s pending Mars mission and its required three-year absence from Earth.
“Space: The Longest Goodbye” debuts on PBS’s INDEPENDENT LENS on May 6,
at 10 p.m. ET (check local listings). The film will be available to stream on the PBS App and also accessible via PBS’s flagship YouTube channel.
