
Mutating Astronaut Blood, A Cautionary Tale
We Have Concerns
Is That a Sexist Guideline?
NASA was overestimating the amount of radiation that their astronauts could be exposed to, but also limiting. They were limiting women in particular as astronauts and how many times they could go into space citing the fact that women physically cannot take as much radiation as male astronauts. And what they found actually was that it was kind of a sexist guideline because the amount of Radiation per voyage is small.
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