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Going Back to the Moon and Mars
An anonymous reader writes "An interesting three-part interview with author Dr. Andrew Chaikin discusses whether humans or machines could best explore the moon or Mars and even whether a crew could get along with each other for three years on an extended mission. His Mars planning draws on Apollo mission transcripts, and he cites mishaps with the Apollo 15 lunar rover almost sliding catastrophically down a mountain, an astronaut argument as to who took the most famous earthrise picture and what after 14 months in space, the Russian record-holder uses to recover his land legs: 'One vodka, one sauna'."
I guess this just goes to show their is a difference between reading and comprehending.
No amount of nuclear devices or propulsive systems that humans use in long distances space travel will have any noticeable affects given the huge amount of high energy particles given off by the sun. What is given off with be lost in a background noise of radiation/particles from the sun and will be blown/scattered by the solar wind in short order.