The dummies are fitted with more than 5,600 sensors each, which will measure exposure to space radiation.
Space radiation poses a major health risk to astronauts in space and could be a limiting factor on long space journeys to the moon, Mars and beyond.
"We are very happy to fly [StemRad] on this mission," Thomas Berger, from the German Aerospace Center and lead scientist of the Matroshka AstroRad Radiation Experiment mission, told Space.com at the International Astronautical Congress on October 23. This dummy, called Helga, is destined for a pioneering lunar flyby to help protect space travelers from cosmic rays and energetic solar storms."We are relying on our expertise in protecting personnel in nuclear plants and emergency workers exposed to high levels of radiation or terrorist radiological threats," StemRad company director Oren Milstein said in a statement.
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