ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the activities involving design for habitability were considered in terms of human engineering and architectural standards. It studies the movement of a crew in a lunar base as they went through a day's activities to see whether there were problems with the design that they could observe. In 1969 NASA and some of its contractors began to study habitability criteria for long-duration space missions. In May 1970, the first National Symposium on Habitability was held in Venice, California. Architects, city planners, physicians, philosophers, artists, engineers, psychologists, and political and social scientists were invited to help us get a perspective on the problem. The comprehensive habitability testing program comprises four major categories of data sources. These are measures of personality and environmental dispositions of the inhabitants, evaluation of the environment by outsiders, evaluation of the environment by inhabitants, and behavioral observation of the inhabitants.
