The torso comes replete with the full bone structure inside. It was aboard STS-91, a shuttle trip in June 1998 that lasted nearly 10 days. At roughly 1,600 locations, passive detectors are mounted internal to the framework. They measure radiation dose depths from front to back, side to side, etc., he said. What is Radiation Sickness Radiation sickness is an effect that radiation has on body tissues.
Radiation effects can result in acute, delayed, or chronic illnesses.
Depending onthe dose and type of radiation, symptoms can be mild, transitory, or severe. A person can suffer from loss of appetite, vomiting, and diarrhea to brain damage and death. Even small doses of radiation are a worry, due to the possibility oflong-term genetic effects and increased cancer rates. At five critical organ-tissue locations within the torso, another set of tiny active devices can record what is happening to the torso as a function of time. The two instruments mounted outside will tell us about the spectrum of particles that first hits space station shielding.