Host: The Japan Radiation Research Society
In recent, NASA has changed space program at several points in space science. One is space travel to Moon, Mars and beyond. Another is the stopping of large centrifugator in International Space Station (ISS). Therefore, we have to reconstruct the space experiments about biological effects of space radiations and human health from them. Since human being expands to space in near future, the effects of space radiation on human health will be analyzed from an aspect of molecular levels by the application of advanced techniques of molecular biology. In addition, the biological effects of space radiations are also important from cellular, organ and whole body levels. As experimental projects on the earth, there are many approaches such as the biological effects of radiations with low dose and low dose rate, high LET radiations, microbeams and bystander effects. The physical studies about characteristics of space radiations are also important from dosimetry, species and energy of space radiations, forecast of sun activity and protection from them.
Today, we will introduce the recent schedules of space science about space radiations in Japanese government. In addition, we show the project of our space experiments designed in next year.
