A shekara ta 2003, NASA ta Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center ya bude wani makaman, da NASA Space Radiation Laboratory, a Brookhaven National Laboratory, wanda ya yi amfani da barbashi accelerators to koyi sarari radiation. The makaman nazarin da effects a kan rayayyun halittu, kazalika da gwaji tare da shielding dabaru. Da farko, akwai wasu shaida cewa irin wannan low matakin, m radiation ba quite kamar yadda m kamar yadda aka yi tunani; da kuma cewa radiation hormesis faruwa. Duk da haka, sakamakon daga wani binciken a shekara ta 2006 ya nuna cewa protons daga sararin samaniya radiation iya sa kamar yadda tsanani lalacewar DNA kamar yadda aka a baya kiyasta, fallasa astronauts zuwa sau biyu mafi girma hadarin ciwon daji da kuma sauran cututtuka. A matsayin mafi girma sakamakon radiation a Mars, da summary rahoton na Human Review of U.S. Space Fans, a Brookhaven National Laboratory, cewa ma'aikata barbashi accelerators to koyi sararin samaniya radiation. A watan Satumba 25, 2017, NASA ya ruwaito cewa, "A cikin wani sararin sararin samaniya jirgin sama, ba su da wani abu mai yawa
irin wannan ƙananan matakin, radiation na yau da kullun ba shi da haɗari kamar yadda ake tsammani; kuma wannan radiation hormesis yana faruwa