[ExI] Radiation damage could stop manned trips to Mars

Stephen Van Sickle sjv2006 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 23:31:16 UTC 2016


The standard thinking is to have a "storm shelter" for solar storms.  But
the mass to protect against the high energy particles that the paper
studied wouldn't be practical for a spacecraft.


On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:49 PM, CryptAxe <cryptaxe at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a silly question probably... Could SpaceX/nasa etc build an anti
> radiation chamber / pod of some kind for space travelers which would reduce
> the exposure to radiation?
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