Space Travel Worry: Cosmic Ray Exposure Leads To Dementia-Like Impairments

Saturday, May 2, 2015 - 15:10 in Astronomy & Space

There is discussion of a U.S. manned mission to Mars but if recent history is any indication, the next president will undo the space program of the current one, just as the current one undid the manned space program of the last. It may be for the best, at least as far astronaut safety is concerned. The destructive particles in galactic cosmic ray exposure can forever impair cognition, according to an oncology paper in Science Advances. read more

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