Flight to Mars to cut cosmonauts’ lifespan by 2.5 years, says report – TASS

MOSCOW, December 10. /TASS/. The space radiation effect during an inter-planetary flight to the Red Planet will reduce the cosmonauts lifespan by 2.5 years, according to the materials released at the 17th conference on space biology and medicine in Moscow on Monday.
“For a two-year length of the expeditions flight to Mars and back, the aggregate radiation risk during the cosmonauts lifespan irrespective of their age under the RR…

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