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74.1 Introduction
e advance of space exploration has been fraught with inherent risk throughout its history. Health
eects from space radiation for o-world astronauts remain one such risk that has historically received
li
ttle
at
tention
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t
in fa
ct
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y
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mo
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nstraining
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ctor
fo
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th
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fr
om
th
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lative
sa
fety
of th
e
Ea
rth’s
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gnetosphere
. Wit
h
in
terplanetary
an
d
lu
nar-based
mi
ssions
ra
pidly
ap
proaching
on th
e
ho
rizon,
it is no
w
cr
itically
im
portant
to un
derstand
th
e
im
pacts
of th
e
sp
ace
ra
diation
en
vironment
an
d
to de
velop
in
strumentation
ca
pable
of pr
operly
ex
pressing
th
at
ha
z-
ard
. A su
mmary
is pr ...