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A tragedy, and I wonder if being in space had anything to do with the development of her cancer. Astronauts must be bombarded by levels of radiation that people
by swang720 14y ago
A tragedy, and I wonder if being in space had anything to do with the development of her cancer. Astronauts must be bombarded by levels of radiation that people on Earth are not exposed to on a daily basis.
- codgercoder 14y agoI suppose NASA has been keeping stats; I wonder what they look like.
- excuse-me 14y agoStatistically unconvincing ?
- dantheman 14y agoHere's a good PDF about space radiation: htttp://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/factsheets/pdfs/radiation.pdf
- splat 14y agoFixed link: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/factsheets/pdfs/radiation.pdf http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/factsheets/pdfs/radiat...
- CamperBob2 14y agoSounds like they get blasted pretty hard, with the equivalent of several hundred chest X-rays over a 6-month tour.
- rdl 14y agoA shuttle mission is at most 3-4 mSv/day, and depends on orbit. ISS is about 80 per 180 day mission. A whole-body CT is 10-12 mSv. Non-trivial, but not huge.
- Craiggybear 14y agoI have often thought that statistically most astronauts are quite long-lived (barring launch pad accidents). That, and their careers are usually quite short. Unlike airline pilots. They are exposed to quite high radiation flux for a good number of years over their entire career and are normally monitored closely for radiation induced disease within the normal routine medical checks.