Mars Trip To Use Astronaut Poo As Radiation Shield

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This post is written by Jacob Aron and Lisa Grossman. There is an Inspiration Mars mission that is scheduled to fly-by to Mars in 2018. The authors share, that the problem of the astronauts that will be on board the space shuttle would be the radiation from cosmic rays. To protect themselves, the suggested solution is to line the space shuttle’s walls with food, water and poop.

The post shows a comment from Tabe MacCallum: “It’s a little queasy sounding, but there’s no place for that material to go, and it makes great radiation shielding,”. Tabe MacCallum is a member of the team funded by multimillionaire Dennis Tito.

Tabe McCallum explained to New Scientist that the liquid and solid waste of humans would be placed in bags then used as radiation shield…

Read more at: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23230-mars-trip-to-use-astronaut-poo-as-radiation-shield.html