Radiation when flying to Mars takes 2 and a half years of astronaut life

Each flight that lasts two years on Mars will take 2.5 years of life for each crew member due to direct contact with radiation during the flight.

The long flight to Mars makes the astronaut's average life expectancy to decrease by 2.5 years.

That is the information revealed in the presentation report at the "Aerospace and Environmental Medicine" conference held in Moscow.

This report also shows that, until now, many calculations have been made about the total radiation risk of the entire astronaut's life after long flights to Mars that last up to 3 years during the period. The sun is most active with protective layers of different thickness from aluminum radiation.

When performing calculations for simple spherical spacecraft and standardized human body models inside the ship, also consider the case of launching a spacecraft onto Mars orbit with jet engines. The liquid and nuclear propulsion system, it was discovered that, for a two-year flight mission to Mars and back, the total risk of radioactive contamination throughout the astronauts' lives, regardless of age, with an ion shield level of 20g / cm ² , it will be 7.5%, and the average life expectancy is reduced by 2.5 years.