Reuters:
What’s keeping us from Mars? Space rays, say experts. And this, from a serious news source. Sounds like a bad B-movie. Cosmic rays, if you please. The reality sounds campy enough.
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And there’s no guarantee, for instance, that x amount of lead will be effective at all locations on the trip ...
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They’re right: the degree of exposure to various kinds of space radiation is exponentially higher with a Mars voyage, and keeping astronauts from being cooked alive in their space-can is a problem of massive proportions.