"It's an opportunity to see what kind of [radiation] exposure that we get as they get further and further away from the surface of the Earth. That's something that we don't have a whole lot of data on, because we've been limited to the number of humans that have been that far. So that's critically important to understand."
"The research in the Polaris program, planned to be three flights, is particularly focused on human health and the effects of spaceflight on the body. The current mission will be studied by Baylor College of Medicine, with the astronauts giving blood and going through extensive biomedical testing both before and after the flight."
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