NASA Likely to Break Radiation Rules to Go to Mars

[Marlin]

NASA Likely to Break Radiation Rules to Go to Mars


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/space/nasa-mars-radiation-rule/

[Bonds 25]

So, NASA can figure out how to put humans on Mars.....but they can't figure out that 50 REM of exposure over a year will have very little....if any effects at all on the health of the Astronauts. Dumb smart people.

[Chimera]

Planned Special Exposure?

[SloGlo]

Planned Special Exposure?

ya wood think, huh? probly the smallest aspect two bee planned fore this project. unless, of coarse, radiation effects sells differently inn space.

[Red Gold]

So, NASA can figure out how to put humans on Mars.....but they can't figure out that 50 REM of exposure over a year will have very little....if any effects at all on the health of the Astronauts. Dumb smart people.

I think they know that. But the issue is really PR-related more than anything else. NASA has to be seen to be Doing Something.

[SloGlo]

I think they know that. But the issue is really PR-related more than anything else. NASA has to be seen to be Doing Something.

butt there studying global warming!
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2010-02-01-nasa-moon-obama_n.htm

[a|F]

So, NASA can figure out how to put humans on Mars.....but they can't figure out that 50 REM of exposure over a year will have very little....if any effects at all on the health of the Astronauts. Dumb smart people.

Did we read the same article?

It's too bad they don't have you on the team to figure this all out for them/us/Planet B.

[Bonds 25]

Did we read the same article?

It's too bad they don't have you on the team to figure this all out for them/us/Planet B.

"NASA's biggest obstacle to sending humans to Mars may not be related to line items in budgets, but to the safety of the astronauts themselves"

"Space radiation presents the tallest hurdle to NASA's future travel plans that extend beyond low-Earth orbit and for periods longer than a year. On the International Space Station, astronauts are bombarded with 10 times as much radiation as they experience on Earth in a given period; on Mars, they will encounter 100 times the terrestrial dose"


~500 mrem annual exposure from background that is experienced here on Earth........100 times 500 mrem is, I believe unless my calculator is off, 50 Rem of exposure annually. The Astronauts receiving 50 Rem over a year could literally be the least dangerous aspect of traveling to Mars.

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