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Expedition 53 Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli, from the European Space Agency, fills a personal radiation shielding garment with water. Water is used for its shielding properties and filled inside garment containers covering organs that are especially sensitive to cosmic radiation.

Astronaut Paolo Nespoli fills a personal radiation shielding garment with water

iss053e238877 (Nov. 7, 2017) --- Expedition 53 Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli, from the European Space Agency, fills a personal radiation shielding garment with water. Water is used for its shielding properties and filled inside garment containers covering organs that are especially sensitive to cosmic radiation.

Image Credit: NASA
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