[hoorayimhelping]

I think you might be grossly underestimating the psychological impact of spending 6 months inside a place the size of an apartment with no day or night cycle, a constant feeling of weightlessness, and no ability to go outside or feel things like wind or rain.

[bostonpete]

They're stuck inside there anyways. If it were me, I suspect I'd prefer to stay occupied. I'm not saying we should work them to the bone, but 16 hours a day plus weekends just seems like a lot of time to fill when there's limited options anyways.

BTW, I'm being down-voted above for expressing surprise at the claim the crew only works 8 hours daily including 2 hours exercise. But the example crew day shown in the following link suggests (by my reading) that it's more like 11 hours (7:30-7:30 with an hour of lunch):

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-typical-daily-schedule-in-th...