The Astronaut Therapist

In space, no one can hear you scream, weep, complain about your spouse. Well, that was before the unveiling of the Virtual Space Station, a project designed to provide astronauts with counseling while they’re in space. The Guardian reports that the new project—budgeted at just under $2 million—will allow astronauts to listen to the recorded musings of a Dartmouth psychologist named Mark Hegel. Astronaut depression is a rare but potentially serious problem: “In 1985, a mission on Russia's Salyut 7 space station was scrapped because the commander was spending hours looking out of portholes.”