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Mark Kelly: “You get like 10 chest x rays worth of radiation every day.”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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A History Nerd Interviews Senator Mark Kelly

Published | Video Starts at 05:58

That's fascinating. That. Yeah. So there's something about the environment, either the zero gravity or the radiation. So maybe we think it's all like, generally bad for you, especially the radiation. You get like 10 chest x rays worth of radiation every day. Oh, wow. It's a lot of radiation. Wow. Yeah. But maybe there's a little upside. Might expand your life just a tiny bit or something. That's really interesting. (05:58–06:02)

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Asserts that astronauts receive radiation equivalent to 10 chest x-rays daily in space.

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