Radiation in Space -- Space Weather Context -- Metrics of Radiation Risk -- Radiation and the International Space Station -- Issues in Managing Radiation Risk During ISS Construction -- The Apollo Experience -- Solar Particle Events and the International Space Station -- Background to an Assessment of SPE Impacts on ISS Construction -- Probability of SPE Impact on ISS Construction -- Correlation Between SPEs and Size of the SPE Zone -- Relativistic Electrons and the International Space Station -- Outer Belt Electrons -- Monitoring Outer Belt Electrons -- Predictability of Radiation Belt Electrons at Low Altitude -- Assessment of Hazards Faced by Astronauts During ISS Construction -- Operational Strategy -- Spacecraft Sources of Operational Radiation Data -- Value of Spacecraft Monitors in Support of ISS Construction -- An Interagency Fleet of Spacecraft Monitors -- Future Spacecraft in Support of ISS Operations -- Interagency Connections -- Institutional Factors Limiting Interagency Ability to Provide Better Information for Operational Radiation Risk Assessments -- Recommendations -- Intra-NASA Connections -- Radiation: A Concern Throughout NASA -- NASA Programs That Involve Radiation -- Communication Between Programs with an Interest in Radiation -- Epilogue: A Notional Scenario for Improved Support of International Space Station Construction -- Vision of an ISS Construction Mission Supported by Reliable, Accurate Radiation Forecast Models During the Solar Maximum -- The Way Things Ought to Work -- The Missing Pieces -- Timetable for Implementing the Report's Recommendations -- Space Weather Models Applied to Radiation Risk Reduction -- Statement of Task -- Biographies of Committee Members
