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by splat 5071 days ago
Fixed link: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/factsheets/pdfs/radiat...
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Sounds like they get blasted pretty hard, with the equivalent of several hundred chest X-rays over a 6-month tour.
A shuttle mission is at most 3-4 mSv/day, and depends on orbit. ISS is about 80 per 180 day mission. A whole-body CT is 10-12 mSv. Non-trivial, but not huge.