(Reuters) Ori Lewis and Rinat Harash - Tel Aviv-based StemRad, which has produced and marketed a belt to protect rescue workers from harmful gamma ray radiation emitted in nuclear disasters, has developed a vest designed to shield astronauts from deadly solar particles in deep space. The vest will be tested on a dummy that will monitor radiation absorption during a NASA flight scheduled for 2018 on a mission that will orbit the moon.
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