Apr 9 1971

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Cosmic ray tracks found in helmets of Apollo astronauts had indicated that exposure during space mission was sufficient to damage certain nonreplaceable cells on long flights, General Electric R&D Center team reported in Science. On two-year mission, fraction of cells killed could rise to 0.12% in cerebral cortex, 0.05% in retina, and more than 1.5% for giant cells. Proportions might be "highly worrisome, since additional safe shielding would impose important weight considerations on spacecraft design." (Comstock, Fleischer, et al., Science, 4/9/71, 154-6 )


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