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Radiation Effects

Author(s): Ann R. Kennedy, PhD
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NASA Space Radiation Laboratory

Transcript:
Many different types of radiation encountered during space travel could produce adverse biological effects in astronauts. Exposure to ionizing radiation during space travel poses some unique hazards, however, primarily due to the presence of relatively large numbers of heavy ions in space. Although we are not exposed to heavy ions on earth, we can study their biological effects at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory, known as NSRL, which is a facility at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. NSRL provides beam lines of the energetic heavy ions encountered during space travel to support studies on the biologic effects of these types of radiations.

Keywords: astronaut | ionizing radiation | radiation | space | space travel | heavy ions | NSDL
Reference:
  1. NASA. National Space Radiation Laboratory.   Retrieved 06-15-2008 from http://hacd.jsc.nasa.gov/web_docs/radiation/newsletters/V2-1.htm

Funded by the following grant(s)

National Space Biomedical Research Institute

National Space Biomedical Research Institute

This work was supported by National Space Biomedical Research Institute through NASA cooperative agreement NCC 9-58.