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Development of a NASA Space Stressors Laboratory (NSSL) Leveraging Existing Resources

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Development of a NASA Space Stressors Laboratory (NSSL) Leveraging Existing Resources

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  • Author: Jason M. Weeks, Janice Zawaski, Janapriya Saha, Brock J. Sishc, and S. Robin Elgart
As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) prepares for future missions to the Moon and then on to Mars, many of the health risks of cosmic radiation still need to be characterized and mitigated. To support these goals, NASA partnered with the Office of Science for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (Figure 1). This facility allows scientists to use high energy ion beams to simulate space radiation and assess the risks of space radiation on biological outcomes and equipment[1].

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