How scientists are keeping the Orion spacecraft safe from radiation
When NASA’s Artemis I mission launched on its journey around the moon in 2022, there weren’t any astronauts aboard — but there were two torso-shaped dummies, named Helga and Zohar, who were designed to test how much radiation astronauts can expect to be exposed to when they do eventually fly on theArtemis IIand III missions. Now, the German space agency DLR has released the first results from the radiation study, and the good news for future moon explorers is that it looks like the radiation levels are within acceptable limits inside shielded areas of the spacecraft....