A Creativity-Cohesion-Contemplation modus for human space exploration

Humanity is exploring our mother planet underground, on the terrestrial surface and will explore outer space to develop the art of living together and living under extreme environmental conditions. New challenges are to build behavioral strategies and to exploit innovative technologies in process of social and individual adaptation to temporal dynamics. Humans in space will spend long periods of time in a Moon village then in Mars colonization. We analyzed ethological results, within interdisciplinary approaches, by the observation, description and quantification of isolated and confined groups' behavior in analog environments or experimental paradigms. The study applied scientific protocols during a 40-day expedition in a cave with no calendar time and no sunlight (DEEP TIME); during the crossing of hostile regions with changing climates, very hot or very cold temperatures (DEEP CLIMATE); during ground-based isolation and confinement campaigns of 180- and 240-day duration simulating interplanetary missions, greenhouses and extravehicular activities (DEEP SPACE). We address the question of what future solutions we could propose through behavioral observations and pictorial illustrations of social groups in human-like space exploration environments. We discuss results on creativity through evolution and exploration in DEEP TIME, cohesion through proxemics and temporality in DEEP CLIMATE, and contemplation through augmented reality and in the astral universe in DEEP SPACE. We conclude with a self-organized community under a Creativity-Cohesion-Contemplation modus to put humanity into perspective in other exploration fields on Earth and beyond.