{"id":125030,"date":"2021-07-16T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/report-suggests-that-astronauts-shouldnt-get-more-than-600-millisieverts-of-radiation-exposure-during-their-career-we-get-2-3-a-year-down-here-on-earth"},"modified":"2021-07-16T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:22:21","slug":"report-suggests-that-astronauts-shouldnt-get-more-than-600-millisieverts-of-radiation-exposure-during-their-career-we-get-2-3-a-year-down-here-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/report-suggests-that-astronauts-shouldnt-get-more-than-600-millisieverts-of-radiation-exposure-during-their-career-we-get-2-3-a-year-down-here-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Report Suggests That Astronauts Shouldn\u2019t get More Than 600 Millisieverts of Radiation Exposure During Their Career. We get 2\u20133 a Year Down Here on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/report-suggests-that-astronauts-shouldnt-get-more-than-600-millisieverts-of-radiation-exposure-during-their-career-we-get-2-3-a-year-down-here-on-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Universe Today.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Space may be pretty, but it\u2019s dangerous. Astronauts face a much higher dose of ionizing radiation than us Earth-bound folks, and a new report says that NASA\u2019s current guidelines and risk assessment methods are in serious need of an update.<\/p>\n<p>On the surface of the Earth, protected by our extensive magnetic field and layers of thick atmosphere, we experience about 2\u20133 milliSieverts (mSv) of radiation exposure every year. Even that background level is enough to trigger the occasional cancer growth.<\/p>\n<p>But astronauts, especially those hoping to go on upcoming long-term missions to the Moon and Mars, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/149065\/health-issues-from-spaceflight-might-originate-in-the-mitochondria\/\">face a much greater risk<\/a> due to the high-energy, ionizing radiation constantly soaking every cubic centimeter of space. To mitigate that risk, NASA currently implements a system based on \u201crisk of exposure-induced death\u201d (REID). The space agency estimates the exposure for each astronaut based on their sex, and if the REID exceeds 3%, their spacefaring careers are over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universe Today. Space may be pretty, but it\u2019s dangerous. Astronauts face a much higher dose of ionizing radiation than us Earth-bound folks, and a new report says that NASA\u2019s current guidelines and risk assessment methods are in serious need of an update. On the surface of the Earth, protected by our extensive magnetic field and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1901,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-sex","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}