(Oct. 30, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
A radiation protection vest, developed by an Israeli-American company and worn by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, went on display Friday morning at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
The AstroRad vest, developed by StemRad, was worn by four female U.S. astronauts and an Israeli private astronaut during routine daily activities aboard the space station.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving AstroRad displayed at the Smithsonian is a tremendous honor and a proud milestone for our team,\u201d stated Oren Milstein, CEO and co-founder of StemRad.<\/p>\n
StemRad was founded in 2011. In 2023, the company secured a $4.5 million agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense for its 360-degree gamma-shielding gear for use by the U.S. National Guard.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnowing that a technology we developed to help protect astronauts is now being recognized as part of the history of space exploration is incredibly rewarding,\u201d Milstein stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith AstroRad also on display at Kennedy Space Center following the groundbreaking Artemis I mission, we hope these exhibits will inspire future generations to tackle the challenges of human space exploration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
AstroRad was developed in collaboration with Lockheed Martin to address ionizing radiation in space.<\/p>\n
Research findings published in Science Advances suggested that \u201cAstroRad\u2019s ability to dramatically reduce radiation exposure during potentially cancer-inducing solar radiation storms.\u201d<\/p>\n
The figures were taken from NASA\u2019s Artemis I mission, which went around the moon.<\/p>\n
The vest from that voyage is on display at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe AstroRad vest helps tell two stories in the new \u2018At Home in Space\u2019 exhibit,\u201d stated Jennifer Levasseur, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum.<\/p>\n
\u201cImportantly, the vest represents efforts to protect astronauts from the significant concern of increased radiation exposure on long-duration spaceflights,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s also an example of how technology demonstrations on the ISS will inform future human deep space exploration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Oct. 30, 2026 \/ JNS) A radiation protection vest, developed by an Israeli-American company and worn by astronauts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-661965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}