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A New NASA Flagship Facility: PRECISE – Proton Radiation Environmentally Controlled Investigations for Space Exploration

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A New NASA Flagship Facility: PRECISE – Proton Radiation Environmentally Controlled Investigations for Space Exploration

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  • Author: Sylvain V. Costes
This paper proposes a NASA-led investment in a flagship user facility at NASA Ames Research Center for simulating high energy protons and combined exposures to other spaceflight stressors for a wide variety of in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro biological systems, as well as non-biological models of spacecraft and instruments. One of the main risks in long-duration crewed missions is exposure to ionizing radiation. Ionizing radiation in space has two main sources: our sun and galactic cosmic radiation (GCR).

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