Full mission astronaut radiation exposure assessments for long duration lunar surface missions

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Adamczyk, Anne ^a   Clowdsley, Martha ^b   Qualls, Garry ^b   Blattnig, Steve ^b   Lee, Kerry ^c   Fry, Dan ^c   Stoffle, Nicholas ^d   Simonsen, Lisa ^b   Slaba, Tony ^b   Walker, Steven ^e   Zapp, Edward ^c  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^e OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INDUCTION; EFFECTIVE DOSE; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; EXPOSURE RATE; EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY; GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS; LONG DURATION; LOW-EARTH ORBIT; LUNAR HABITATS; LUNAR SURFACE; MISSION ARCHITECTURES; MISSION DURATION; MITIGATION STRATEGY; OPERATIONAL PRACTICES; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RISK; SOLAR PARTICLE EVENTS;

COSMIC RAYS; ECOSYSTEMS; IONIZING RADIATION; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; ORBITS; RADIATION SHIELDING; SHIELDING;

LUNAR MISSIONS;

EID: 79955781489     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2011.5747250     Document Type: Conference Paper

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