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In the museum on Nantuckut there is a display devoted to the USS Essex, a whaling ship (it is the ship that the whale rams, I think). One incindent that made an impression on me was a sailor, who was driven insane by boredom, and sabotaged the ship, just for something to happen.

I understand space to be unbelivably boring.

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My boss's classmate from college went up to the ISS for the first time a couple of years ago. They graduated about 25 years ago and his classmate worked nonstop for 25 years to get to go to space.

My understanding is once there, you work 16 hour days non-stop.

I think most people would describe being on the ISS as anything else but "boring".

Most people, sure. But it only takes one who's different.

There was a mutiny on a Skylab mission due to overworking the crew

Overworking the crew and the absolutely horrendous quality of life on Skylab

ISS crew have more tasks than time, and typically undersleep.

Do you know this for a fact? Where can I learn more about how they occupy their time?

I recommend the ISS blog: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

that's a good recipe for insanity.

USS is only applied to US Navy ships in active service, so the ships name is just the Essex. An interesting parallel for sure.

the cosmonauts remain on soyuz for like 6 hours until they dock, mostly confined and executnig orders. whatever boredom probably comes later when they 're in the station

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