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December 1, 2008 By Faye FlamSpace shuttle commander Christopher Ferguson and his crew took a small but crucial step for space travel in the past two weeks, enlarging the International Space Station so it can house six astronauts instead of three.
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IF they can make that work, it may indeed go a long way toward helping. I wouldn't say it invalidates any of this article though. What happens when you step onto another planet with no atmosphere and no way for you to generate a magnetic field? Or an Asteroid or whatever. Or what happens when your new-fangled magnetic field FAILS somewhere in the middle of the void of space between here and Mars? What's that? Blue screen of Radiation Death?