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d at UH, FLUKA's source code will be available for the first time to scientists under a special license agreement between CERN and INFN. CERN has officially recognized FLUKA as a CERN-supported code and is now supplying support for manpower to continue the development of the code into the future.

In an ongoing collaboration between UH and NASA, with the support of UH's Dave Criswell, director of the Institute for Space System Operations, UH will provide a version of FLUKA to NASA for use in simulating the space radiation environment inside spacecraft, on the moon and on the surface of Mars.

"These modified codes will be used to help design the shielding materials used to construct the spacecraft that will carry men and women back to the moon and on to Mars," Pinsky said.

Last January, President Bush mentioned the effects of space radiation as one of the crucial problems that has to be overcome for the progress of these types of future projects. UH's ongoing collaborations with NASA and the architects of FLUKA are vital for this success.

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Contact: Lisa Merkl
lkmerkl@uh.edu
713-743-8192
University of Houston
20-Dec-2004

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