Medical countermeasures for the hematopoietic-subsyndrome of acute radiation syndrome in space

Kernagis, Dawn N.; Balcer-Kubiczek, Elizabeth; Bazyar, Soha; Orschell, Christie M.; Jackson, Isabel L.

doi:10.1016/j.lssr.2022.06.002

Medical countermeasures for the hematopoietic-subsyndrome of acute radiation syndrome in space

More than 50 years after the Apollo missions ended, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) and other international space agencies are preparing a return to the moon as a step towards deep space exploration. At doses ranging from a fraction of a Gray (Gy) to a few Gy, crew will …