# 899-Hitch Hiking an Asteroid to Mars

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Podcast: [Travelers In The Night](https://stenobird.com/podcast/travelers-in-the-night-1048610)
Published: 2026-05-15T16:00:02+00:00
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## Resource

Asteroids could provide a solution for the serious problem of how to protect astronauts from harmful solar and cosmic radiation during long duration space flights and thus eliminate the need for the spacecraft itself to have heavy shielding material. The idea is for the spacecraft to spend most of the journey inside the asteroid.

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