amazing they made this idea a reality! not sure if they used the crowdfunding money or if nasa paid. Got to schedule a visit, what a place to go before i get too old.
Media Invited to Newly-Restored Apollo Mission Control Center
Fifty years ago, an unparalleled team of experts in a mission control center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston landed the first humans on the Moon. Media are invited to join NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine for the reopening of this historic and newly-restored facility at 9 a.m. CDT Frid... Read more
A Texas pastor beheld the familiar faces of 110 congregants Sunday despite the ban on in-person worship amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The worshipers – in very un-churchlike fashion – had gathered in the pews closest to the pulpit.
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Both male and female astronauts are not allowed to accumulate a radiation dose that would increase their lifetime risk of developing fatal cancer by more than 3 percent. A six-month mission on the International Space Station exposes astronauts to about 40 times the average yearly dose of background radiation that a person would receive living on Earth, NASA spokesman William Jeffs said .
While the level of risk allowed for both men and women in space is the same, women have a lower threshold for space radiation exposure than men, according to physiological models used by NASA.
“Depending on when you fly a space mission, a female will fly only 45 to 50 percent of the missions that a male can fly,” Peggy Whitson, the former chief of NASA’s Astronaut Corps, said. “That’s a pretty confining limit in terms of opportunity. I know that they are scaling the risk to be the same! And it’s a sad situation for the female astronauts on the International Space Station they will probably be too old to be chosen for the mission to the Moon!
Female Astronauts Face Discrimination from Space Radiation Concerns, Astronauts Say
Female astronauts have fewer opportunities to fly in space because of lifetime radiation exposure restrictions, according to NASA astronauts. Read more here.
amazing they made this idea a reality! not sure if they used the crowdfunding money or if nasa paid. Got to schedule a visit, what a place to go before i get too old.
Half a million raised for this on kickstarter already in progress, i think
Not everyone is the US is ashamed of Texas, but those who are, often live there…
LOL – Darwin Award Winners of the South.
One preacher and his solution to a vivid congregation.
There is a reason why women face discrimination in space – fortunately. And it isn’t a sexist conspiracy. From the article at: https://www.space.com/22252-women-astronauts-radiation-risk.html
Both male and female astronauts are not allowed to accumulate a radiation dose that would increase their lifetime risk of developing fatal cancer by more than 3 percent. A six-month mission on the International Space Station exposes astronauts to about 40 times the average yearly dose of background radiation that a person would receive living on Earth, NASA spokesman William Jeffs said .
While the level of risk allowed for both men and women in space is the same, women have a lower threshold for space radiation exposure than men, according to physiological models used by NASA.
“Depending on when you fly a space mission, a female will fly only 45 to 50 percent of the missions that a male can fly,” Peggy Whitson, the former chief of NASA’s Astronaut Corps, said. “That’s a pretty confining limit in terms of opportunity. I know that they are scaling the risk to be the same! And it’s a sad situation for the female astronauts on the International Space Station they will probably be too old to be chosen for the mission to the Moon!