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Human Factors: Designing Systems with Pe...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Dr. Cynthia Null, NASA Technical Fellow for Human Factors, discusses how understanding human capabilities and limitations can help engineers reduce risk and design safer, more successful missions from the start.  
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