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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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Vivekanand Vimal receives funding from NASA’s Human Research Program under grant 80NSSC22K0758 When landing on the surface of the Moon, astronauts can become spatially disoriented, which is when they ...