How Safe Is Safe Enough? Radiation Risk for a Human Mission to Mars

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Francis A. Cucinotta ,

* E-mail: francis.cucinotta@unlv.edu

Affiliations NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Space Radiation Program, Houston, Texas, United States of America, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Department of Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
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Myung-Hee Y. Kim,

Affiliation Universities Space Research Association, Division of Space Life Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Lori J. Chappell,

Affiliation Universities Space Research Association, Division of Space Life Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Janice L. Huff

Affiliation Universities Space Research Association, Division of Space Life Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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