The headlines definitely do not capture the difference between LEO and interplanetary travel (and neither does most of the text of the articles, for the most part) . But I'd say Cucinotta's comments appropriately get that message across (in the final paragraphs of the stories). But yeah, most people would likely come away from these articles with the wrong impression.

Radiation exposure may also have been much lower during early missions to the moon and not reflect what would happen with the current generation of astronauts, said Francis Cucinotta, a researcher at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who wasn’t involved in the study.

“The missions in the past were low dose, while in the future the dose would be 50 to 100 times higher for a Mars mission,” Cucinotta said by email.

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On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 2:28 PM Harlan Spence <spence@guero.sr.unh.edu> wrote:

Here’s the recent news I was referring to - it made a splash and certainly in my mind confused the discussion about space radiation for explorers beyond the ISS:

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/us-study-work-in-space-does-not-seem-to-shorten-astronauts-lives-/4719847.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-astronauts/work-in-space-does-not-seem-to-shorten-astronauts-lives-idUSKCN1OP18W
https://www.unionleader.com/news/health/study-work-in-space-does-not-seem-to-shorten-astronauts/article_098dccca-3c44-5b72-9cbe-7b5a74f2bea1.html

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