Today, however, space agencies are taking different ... the organs exposed to radiation, and protection from shielding," he says. The final paper reviews several different approaches to ...

The more thick and heavy shielding there is between a person and the vacuum, the better. Semones said about 20 centimeters of water can soak up most space radiation. Yet water is dense and ...

Rad-hard devices are expensive to produce due to the raw materials used and special shielded packaging on the electronic parts to keep radiation at bay. There are other ways of dealing with space ...