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Chair: Veronica Bindi
The space radiation environment is one of the outstanding challenges of a manned deep-space mission to Mars. To improve our understanding and take us one step closer to enabling a human Mars to mission, the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has been characterizing the radiation environment, both during cruise and on the surface of Mars for the past 4...
Under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP), NASA is collaborating with six companies to design, develop, and test habitat concepts for human missions beyond low Earth orbit. A method for protecting astronauts from the harmful effects of Solar Particle Events (SPEs) must be incorporated into these habitats. This radiation protection may take the form of a...
