Reply to post: Re: Any manned trip to Mars is going to need a lot of radiation shielding,

NASA confirms International Space Station is to keep orbiting through 2030

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Any manned trip to Mars is going to need a lot of radiation shielding,

The best radiation shielding is water.

It's less suitable as micrometor shielding though (which is a bigger problem in LEO, as the magnetosphere takes care of most of the radiation issue)

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