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Critics say NASA is Taking a Giant Leap Backwards By Irradiating Monkeys in Space-Travel Tests

By Michael Collins
Pasadena Weekly | March 1, 2010
Eighteen monkeys sit in cages at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory, where they will be injected with gamma radiation by scientists who contend that the results can be correlated to humans facing long outer space flights through fields of intense cosmic radiation.
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