Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 57, Hazard Number One, radiation.

I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast we bring in the experts, NASA scientists, engineers engineers and astronauts all to let you know the coolest information

But what's going on right here at NASA. So today this podcast this episode is part one of a five-part series on the hazards of human spaceflight.

So a human mission to Mars is extremely complex and challenging and has hazards such as radiation,

isolation, and confinement, distance from Earth, gravity, and

hostile and closed environments.

And they're being studied in ground-based analogs here on Earth, in laboratories, and of course,

on the International Space Station.

So today we're going to talk about that first one, Radiation.

And we're talking with Zorana Patel, a portfolio lead scientist here at the Johnson

Space Center.

Zorana is responsible for management and scientific oversight of degenerative tissue risk for the space radiation program element.

So if you missed it, I talked with Dr. Mike Barrett last week, he's a NASA astronaut,

and he gave a nice overview of all five hazards, including radiation.

And as a space traveler himself and a medical doctor,

he gave a nice two minute overview of why we're concerned

about radiation in the first place and what we know so far.

What exactly you said you know from from small effects to you know lethal effects of

radiation what exactly is radiation doing to the human body so when we think

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