[ RadSafe ] Two unrelated questions for the group

[J. Marshall Reber]

The Smithsonian, you might recall, was forced to greatly modify an 
exhibit not too long ago that portrayed how terrible the U.S.A. was in 
causing the "atrocities" of the atomic bombing of Japan.


On Friday, December 2, 2005, at 10:42 , Minnema, Douglas wrote:

> Second question:  My 15-year old son has a subscription to "Air & Space
> Smithonian" magazine, and in the December 2005/January 2006 issue there 
> is
> an article entitled "The Invisible Killers: Can Astronauts Survive the
> Radiation on a Journey to Mars?".  Has anybody seen this yet?  I'm not
> familiar with current efforts in protecting astronauts from space 
> radiation,
> but some of the statements made in this article are clearly wrong, which
> leads me to suspect that either the article was designed to be 
> inflammatory
> or the author just didn't understand the information he was given.