Funding Status:
Active - Currently funded and in progress
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Aims:
GSAM project provides delivery scheme of low and high LET particles to best simulate 600/900 day Mars missions within facility and animal constraints.
- Studies required to inform countermeasure testing and validation
- Fluence based versus acute exposures to simulate space radiation
GSAM (GCR Simulation and Mitigation) research objectives:
Aim 1: Design and implement Hybrid Shield Concept to simulate GCR environment at NSRL to include production of secondaries and correlated multiplicities found in space
Aim 2: Validate ground simulation of dose rate including fractionation and time course delivery of particles to simulate low dose chronic exposures in space.
Aim 3: Evaluation of dose delivery scheme with biological timescales to inform chronic studies.
Aim 4: Expand design and implement Mars surface simulation at NSRL to include mixed field environment found on Mars surface.