NASA Experts Give Mental Health Tips

The trapped Chilean miners have received psychological tips from experts at NASA, America’s space agency. The 33 miners have a long time to wait before they can be rescued so it is imported for them to maintained their mental health.

The experts said that they advised the miners to regulate the number of times that they spoke to their families and that they should form and underground community.

In an attempt to maintain morale the minors were given a mini TV screen to allow them to watch the Chilean football team in action, unfortunately Chile the match against the Ukraine.

NASA psychologist Albert Holland said  at a news conference in Houston “It’s going to be a group of people that live underground for a long period of time and there will be roles and responsibilities that are allocated and just like topside, just like us, sometimes if we tire of our role or we need a change then we are able to swap with someone else, rotate out, and they will be doing that as well,”

“So organization and focus is a big part of normality, it’s a big part of social structure and community. And, we have to expect though, that they are going to have the ups and downs, just like we all do .”

Dr. Michael Duncan, the head of the NASA team said “The work is just beginning when the miners come out of the mine,because there is a lot of rehabilitation that the miners will have to go through.”

The NASA experts also said that their participation might produce benefits for future space missions.

Engineers are continuing to drill two rescue tunnels to try to reach the miners trapped 2300 feet below the surface. The work could take up to four months to complete.