The Federal Aviation Administration has recently encouraged operators and training programs to incorporate a particular type of training, which the University of North Dakota's ...

When landing on the surface of the Moon, astronauts can become spatially disoriented, which is when they lose sense of their orientation – they might not be able to tell which way is up. This ...

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The sky is no longer the limit — but taking flight is dangerous. In leaving the Earth’s surface, we lose many of the cues we need to orient ourselves, and that spatial disorientation can be deadly.

Vivekanand Pandey Vimal, GSAS PhD’17, is a research scientist at Brandeis’ Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

Spatial disorientation (SD) in aviation refers to a misinterpretation of the aircraft’s attitude, altitude, or motion, often induced by conflicting sensory inputs. Pilots may experience erroneous ...

In a new experiment, a scientist attempted to build trust between humans and machine to help with spatial disorientation on the Moon or Mars. Reading time 3 minutes A one way trip to the Red Planet ...

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Losing your sense of where you are can be fatal enough for aircraft pilots: spatial disorientation is a leading cause of fatal aircraft accidents. But losing your orientation in space itself is even ...

Wearable devices equipped with vibrating elements may offer a potential solution to address spatial disorientation in astronauts during spaceflight, according to a study conducted by scientists from ...