Cancer and circulatory disease risks for a human mission to Mars: Private mission considerations

In addition to traditional interest by various governments in space exploration, there is growing interest in private missions to Mars and other deep space destinations within the next decade. Private missions could consider persons not restricted by radiation limits; however there remains an intere...

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Published in:Acta astronautica 2020-01, Vol.166, p.529-536
Main Authors: Cucinotta, Francis A., Cacao, Eliedonna, Kim, Myung-Hee Y., Saganti, Premkumar B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Astronauts
Biological effects
Cancer
Cognition
Confidence intervals
Cosmic rays
Cosmonauts
Deep space
Disease
Dosage
Epidemiology
Exposure
Fatalities
Females
Galactic cosmic rays
Gamma rays
Health risk assessment
Health risks
Heavy ions
High energy astronomy
Ions
Irradiation
Life expectancy
Males
Manned Mars missions
Mars
Non-targeted effects
Predictions
Radiation
Radiation cancer risk
Radiation circulatory disease risks
Radiobiology
Risk
Solar minimum
Space exploration
Space missions
Space radiation
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Summary:In addition to traditional interest by various governments in space exploration, there is growing interest in private missions to Mars and other deep space destinations within the next decade. Private missions could consider persons not restricted by radiation limits; however there remains an interest in the level of risk to be encountered. The major risk for space travel is cancer from galactic cosmic rays (GCR), while circulatory diseases in suggested in some but not all epidemiology studies at modest doses (
ISSN:0094-5765
1879-2030
DOI:10.1016/j.actaastro.2018.08.022