NASA | Radiation Shielding Materials Containing Hydrogen, Boron, and Nitrogen

Space radiation can cause serious damage to human DNA. It can also cause a variety of long term ailments including cataracts, cancer, and sterility. With current technology, humans cannot travel beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) for more than 100 days and still stay below permissible radiation exposure limits. To solve this problem, scientists at NASA Langley Research Center are looking into different ways to protect astronauts, including the creation of new materials with better radiation shielding capabilities.

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[Darkgalahad]

I didn't expect to read such an elaborate and highly founded intelligent criticism here, but hey waddayaknow right.

[Jay Blue]

How much do Nasa scientists get paid to lie all the time?

Short missions and Long missions have the same problems.

This lying old woman is a disgrace to the human race

[saucersource]

Do we have any published details of captured space radiation. Not the dosage recordings from the astronauts but what is going on out there. As figured by Tesla what was going on out in outer space was coming in here and thus determined we needed a jacket 36" of lead protection that the Earth provided. You remember, Mr Comic Ray himself.

[11kemo11]

Sheila... i don't know if it is a profound idea but, if earth continues to let reactor cores melt down.... we will not need to go all the way to Mars for a proper dose of radiation. just a thought.

[kenrick encinas]

what?

[espiritosantosilva]

just .......magnetic field ....eauivalente to GRAVITY

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.h ttp://linoavac.no.sapo.pt

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.why?

[espiritosantosilva]

h ttp://linoavac.no.sapo.pt

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.why?

[pradeep garimella]

Great Scientists, future of humanity!