Questions about "The High Frontier"

On Oct 18, 10:44 pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
Troy wrote:

Dock an ion drive to a Bigelow module and you would have a manned
asteroid expedition.

I don't know how radiation proof those synthetic fabric walls are going
to be.

Pat

They'd have to be uprated for interplanetary space, that's for sure. A
5cm layer of water is supposed to be sufficient shielding - and
synthetic fabric's a lot safer than the radiation bath you'd get from
an aluminium hull.