Space Radiation and Astronaut Safety pp 63-75 | Cite as
Shielding
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“The space radiation environment will be a critical consideration for everything in the astronauts’ daily lives, both on the journeys between Earth and Mars and on the surface. You’re constantly being bombarded by some amount of radiation.”
– Ruthan Lewis, architect and engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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