Abstract: A prospect for instruments of manned space flight vehicles is presented.After reviewing the instruments of existing manned space flight vehicles,the advanced flight deck of Boeing 777 is introduced.Then, the state-of-the-art of the 1990’s is discussed such as:color flat-panel liquid crystal display,large screen display,touch sensitive screen,glass cockpit,etc..The instrument with natural language output controlled by the computer is presented in order to reduce the pilot’s vision workload; thus both the visual and the hearing senses of the pilot can be brought into full play.

Key words: manned spacecraft, display devices, pilots