Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, Nasa Director of Space Weather: “the Main Risk for Astronauts Is Radiation”

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Since they went out into space, the four astronauts of the Artemis 2 mission are in an environment where the Earth’s climate is no longer of any importance. The four crew members now live on the subject of space climatology. This means above all that they depend on what may happen in the Sun, a sometimes unpredictable giant that is at its peak of activity. The star can spit out flares and winds loaded with radioactive particles that could be ver…