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On 12 April 2001, we celebrated a 40th anniversary of the first manned space flight carried out by Yuri Gagarin (USSR). Since then, space flights become customary as a significant part of our everyday life and scientific and technical experience of the humankind. On this way, however, we are facing of numerous challenges of the Nature, and one of them is a radiation risk in space.
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Miroshnichenko, L.I. (2003). Introduction and Brief History. In: Radiation Hazard in Space. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 297. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0301-7_1
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