{"id":94138,"date":"2019-07-26T07:02:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/radiation-protection-vest-could-take-israeli-flag-to-moon-and-beyond"},"modified":"2019-07-26T07:02:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T14:02:28","slug":"radiation-protection-vest-could-take-israeli-flag-to-moon-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/radiation-protection-vest-could-take-israeli-flag-to-moon-and-beyond","title":{"rendered":"Radiation protection vest could take Israeli flag to Moon and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/radiation-protection-vest-could-take-israeli-flag-to-moon-and-beyond.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has vowed to \u201cuse all means necessary\u201d to ensure the success of the mission, and that could include technology developed by StemRad, a Tel Aviv-based company behind the AstroRad radiation protection vest.<\/p>\n<p>Developed in partnership with aerospace and defense giant Lockheed Martin, the AstroRad vest is personal protective equipment for astronauts to wear beyond Low Earth Orbit, mitigating space radiation exposure outside the Earth\u2019s magnetosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Boasting the Israeli flag, the AstroRad uses a proprietary smart shielding design to selectively protect organs and tissues which are most sensitive to radiation exposure. The company has developed an adapted suit for women, who are particularly vulnerable to space radiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has vowed to \u201cuse all means necessary\u201d to ensure the success of the mission, and that could include technology developed by StemRad, a Tel Aviv-based company behind the AstroRad radiation protection vest. Developed in partnership with aerospace and defense giant Lockheed Martin, the AstroRad vest is personal protective equipment for astronauts to wear beyond [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94138","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}