--- title: We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and... description: An Israeli-American startup called StemRad tested a wearable radiation-shielding vest, AstroRad, by flying it aboard NASA's uncrewed Artemis I mission to the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/we-ve-flown-a-radiation-blocking-vest-to-the-moon-and-back-and-it-worked-34vr5jzpg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked | daily.dev og:description: An Israeli-American startup called StemRad tested a wearable radiation-shielding vest, AstroRad, by flying it aboard NASA's uncrewed Artemis I mission to the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/we-ve-flown-a-radiation-blocking-vest-to-the-moon-and-back-and-it-worked-34vr5jzpg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/34VR5jZPg.png og:image:alt: We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked **[Ars Technica](https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An Israeli-American startup called StemRad tested a wearable radiation-shielding vest, AstroRad, by flying it aboard NASA's uncrewed Artemis I mission to the Moon and back. Using the flight data, the team calculated the vest would shield an astronaut from a solar storm about as effectively as Orion's dedicated onboard radiation shelter, suggesting personal shielding garments could be a mass-efficient alternative to shielding the entire spacecraft. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How well did the AstroRad radiation-shielding vest perform compared to Orion's spacecraft shelter? The AstroRad vest performed roughly as well as Orion's heavily shielded onboard shelter, based on flight data collected during the uncrewed Artemis I mission to the Moon and back. StemRad's team used that data to model how the vest would hold up during an actual solar storm, finding comparable protection to the crew shelter astronauts were meant to use. _Space radiation shielding research like this shows up alongside other engineering deep dives on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [NASA tells astronauts to shelter in SpaceX Dragon due to new ISS leaks](https://daily.dev/posts/nasa-tells-astronauts-to-shelter-in-spacex-dragon-due-to-new-iss-leaks-53afah9kj) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Elon Musk chose Vera Rubin for orbit. 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