Radiation doses while flying gliders

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:56:57 +0000, Walt Connelly wrote:

I believe Alan Shepherd died of Leukemia at 74, it would be interesting
to research the cause of death among all astronauts/cosmonauts over the
years.

I vaguely remember hearing that SAC crews from the cold war era had
higher than normal cancer death rates. Is there any truth in this? If its
so, would that be related more to their scantily wrapped 'cargo' than to
their flying hours at altitude?


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

The story I remember concerned picket aircraft before the DEW line
became operational. The radar operators were getting cancer much more
frequently than the other crew members. It was blamed on the radar,
though, not on cosmic radiation.

-John

On Feb 10, 3:20 pm, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:56:57 +0000, Walt Connelly wrote:
I vaguely remember hearing that SAC crews from the cold war era had
higher than normal cancer death rates. Is there any truth in this? If its
so, would that be related more to their scantily wrapped 'cargo' than to
their flying hours at altitude?