Space weather is not a side issue for Artemis. It affects when crews can safely travel, how spacecraft interiors are arranged, what instruments fly, and how mission control responds when the Sun becomes active. In low Earth orbit, crews aboard the International Space Station still spend much of their time inside Earth’s magnetic protection. A lunar mission is different. Once Orion pushes beyond the magnetosphere, astronauts are exposed to a hars…
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