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#HumanSpaceflightHealth#RadiationProtection#Artemis#LunarGateway
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To protect them, the #spacecraft would either have to be much bulkier, making launches expensive and difficult, or be made of more efficient #shielding 🛡️ materials. https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-missions/how-will-humans-survive-the-journey-to-mars
The #LaunchCost 💰 were very high to bring this material to #orbit 🚀 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
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A #SpacePolicy expert suggested the opposite idea: #raising ⤴️ the #ISS to a stable #orbit at the end of its useful life ♻️ https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-11-20/25-years-of-the-international-space-station-what-next-for-a-beacon-of-peaceful-international-scientific-collaboration.html
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Single outage brought GROUND CONTROL down?! On the ground where power grids & diesel generators at a nearby home improvement store are! Have they never heard of battery backups and generators?! They have no idea what 3 points-safe₁ means, nor failover₂, and have no business trying to send so much as a spatula to #space.
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“‘Possibility of a catastrophic failure’: Inside the space station leak problem that has NASA worried…”
#spaceexploration#space#nasa #spacetravel #spaceflight #astronaut #spacecraft #rocketlaunch #spacestation
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/science/international-space-station-leak-nasa-russia/index.html