Space Radiation in the News/Space Radiation Makes News

This section contains links to articles about space radiation and the people who study it.

Science Now reports a new study suggesting “worse space weather” – with more threats to astronauts -- during the next decades:
September 26, 2011.

A new text by Dr. Olga Smirnova, Environmental Radiation Effects on Mammals: A Dynamical Modeling Approach, has been published by Springer. Read more.

Review of Human Space Flight Plans Committee (Augustine Commission Report)
Complete Report
(For comments on space radiation, please see Chapter 7.0 Critical Technologies for Sustainable Exploration; 7.1, Fundamental Unknowns: Radiation effects on humans, pp. 99-100)
Executive Summary 
October 23, 2009

Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare
June 3, 2009

NASA selects four proposals to study space radiation risks 
June 2, 2009

The Phantom Torso Returns
May 27, 2009

A cluster of health dangers — particularly from space radiation — await astronauts in space 
November 30, 2008

NASA Awards Education Research Grants to Minority Universities
September 9, 2008

NASA Awards Space Radiobiology Research Grants
August 5, 2008