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Suggested Citation:"E Acronyms." National Research Council. 2006. Space Radiation Hazards and the Vision for Space Exploration: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11760.
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Acronyms

ACE Advanced Composition Explorer

AFWA Air Force Weather Agency

ALARA as low as reasonably achievable

ATST Advanced Technology Solar Telescope

AU astronomical unit

CCD charge coupled device

CCMC Community Coordinated Modeling Center

CEDAR Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions

CEV Crew Exploration Vehicle

CISM Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling

CME coronal mass ejection

CPD crew passive dosimeter

CPDS charged particle directional spectrometer

CSSP Committee on Solar and Space Physics

DDREF dose and dose-rate effectiveness factor

DOD Department of Defense

ERR excess relative risk

EUV extreme ultraviolet

EV1 velocity vector

EV2 zenith direction

EV3 antivelocity vector

EVA extravehicular activity

EV-CPDS extra-vehicular charged particle directional spectrometer

Suggested Citation:"E Acronyms." National Research Council. 2006. Space Radiation Hazards and the Vision for Space Exploration: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11760.
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FASR Frequency Agile Solar Radio (telescope array)

GCR galactic cosmic radiation

GEM Geospace Environment Modeling

GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

HZE high Z energetic ion (Z > 2)

IMAGE Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration

IMF interplanetary magnetic field

ISS International Space Station

IV-CPDS intra-vehicular charged particle directional spectrometer

JSC Johnson Space Center

LEO low Earth orbit

LET Linear Energy Transfer

LWS Living With a Star

MARIE Mars Radiation Environment Experiment

MURI Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCRP National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRC National Research Council

NSF National Science Foundation

RAM radiation area monitor

RHESSI Ramati High Energy Solar Spectrographic Imager

SAA South Atlantic Anomaly

SDO Solar Dynamics Observatory

SEC Space Environment Center

SEP solar energetic particle

SHINE Solar, Heliospheric, and Interplanetary Environment

SIREST Space Ionizing Radiation Environments and Shielding Tools

SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

SOLPENCO Solar Particle Engineering Code

SRAG Space Radiation Analysis Group

SSP solar and space physics

STEREO Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory

TEPC tissue equivalent proportional counter

TIMED Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (mission)

Suggested Citation:"E Acronyms." National Research Council. 2006. Space Radiation Hazards and the Vision for Space Exploration: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11760.
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TLD thermoluminescent detector

TRACE Transition Region and Coronal Explorer

USAF U.S. Air Force

VSE Vision for Space Exploration

Suggested Citation:"E Acronyms." National Research Council. 2006. Space Radiation Hazards and the Vision for Space Exploration: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11760.
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Fulfilling the President’s Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) will require overcoming many challenges. Among these are the hazards of space radiation to crews traveling to the Moon and Mars. To explore these challenges in some depth and to examine ways to marshal research efforts to address them, NASA, NSF, and the NRC sponsored a workshop bringing together members of the space and planetary science, radiation physics, operations, and exploration engineering communities. The goals of the workshop were to increase understanding of the solar and space physics in the environment of Earth, the Moon, and Mars; to identify compelling relevant research goals; and discuss directions this research should take over the coming decade. This workshop report presents a discussion of radiation risks for the VSE, an assessment of specifying and predicting the space radiation environment, an analysis of operational strategies for space weather support, and a summary and conclusions of the workshop.

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