Following the end of the Space Radiation Superconducting Shield (SR2S) project in December 2015, scientists now have the knowledge and tools required to develop magnetic shielding structures to protect astronauts from radiation exposure caused by Galactic Cosmic Rays.
They have been compared to astronauts -- these elder navigators who sail vast open oceans in double-hulled canoes thousands of miles from a small island.
Typical entries were “Chinese student delegates from Kyoto University congratulate Lan Xiang” and “Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics send their congratulations”.
The instruments were part of the first complete nuclear-powered ALSEP station set up by astronauts on the Moon to relay long-term data from the lunar surface.