Space Radiation is Risky Business for the Human Body
While people protect their eyes from the Sun’s radiation during a solar eclipse, NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) is working to protect the whole human body from radiation in space. Space radiation is dangerous and one of the primary health risks for astronauts.
Topics
- radiation
- space
- space travel
- galactic cosmic rays
- solar particle events
- DNA mutation
- reactive oxygen species
- ionizing radiation
- radiation shielding
- international space station
- Twins Study
- one year mission
- research
- space reseach
- space radiation
- human body
- human research
- HRP
- astronauts
- future benefits