NASA Gets Backing For New Astronaut Radiation Exposure Limit

Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
HOUSTON—NASA has received backing for the agency’s plan to adopt a proposed new space radiation career exposure limit that would likely require a waiver for multiyear, roundtrip missions to Mars using current shielding and propulsion technologies. The support came from the National Academy of...

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