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Radiation and Bone Loss: Deep Space Mission Concerns

• Space.com
A single dose of radiation approaching what will be faced by long-term space travelers to the Moon or Mars causes as much as a 39 percent spongy bone loss in mice, a new study shows. The loss of connectivity in spongy bone ranged as high as 64 pe

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