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... -- Aerospace Medicine Advisory Committee/NASA Advisory Council, Strategic Considerations for Support of Humans in Space and Moon-Mars Exploration Missions, Life Sciences Research and Technology Programs. 1992 In order to protect crews, to the extent possible, from the various harmful effects LETTER of radiation, it is necessary to thoroughly characterize the radiation environment, ATTACHMENT 1 understand the biological effects of HZE radiation and protons (leading to the ATTACHMENT 2 establishment of appropriate risk levels and limits for radiation exposure)
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... -- Life Sciences Strategic Planning Committee, NASA, Exploring the Living Universe -- A Strategy for Space Life Sciences. 1988 In summary, the highest priorities are for improved dosimetry and for studies of the effects of HZE particles so that the risks of both stochastic effects, such as carcinogenesis, and nonstochastic effects such as CNS damage, can be estimated with confidence.
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... should be expanded, with particular attention paid to the space radiation problem. Life Sciences Task Group, Space Studies Board, Space Science in the Twenty-First Century -- Imperatives for the Decades 1995 to 2015 -- Overview and Life Sciences.
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... Moser to the House Budget Committee Task Force on Defense, Foreign Policy and Space, April 28, 1992 Improved measurements of cross-sections and better modeling of heavy-ion interactions, particularly for the yield and spectra of neutrons and other secondary particles generated in the shielding material, are also required. NASA currently helps support the BEVALAC heavy-ion accelerator and some cross section studies.
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