BRENT: An award of up to $30,000 is being offered to space enthusiasts to provide innovative design ideas that can protect crews on space missions involving long duration like the journey to Mars. Participation in this challenge is open to everyone from 29th April to 29th June, 2015, according to NASA.
Major problems that space travelers in the future who venture beyond the low orbit of the earth are the Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) that are high energy radiation originating outside the solar system.
During space exploration avoiding these charged particles permeating the universe and exposure to them is impossible.
Since space missions to Mars will call for the crew remaining beyond the magnetic field and atmosphere of the Earth that affords protection, for periods ranging between 500 and 1000 days learning the means of protecting human explorers from the effect of exposure to the Galactic cosmic rays gains precedence.
Steve Rader, the deputy supervisor at NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation stated that the sheer number of people from the public who have shown interest in finding a solution to this pretty difficult issue around human space exploration, is quite impressive.
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