How do astronauts protect themselves from radiation in space?

Question

Do the white things that they wear have special features to protect them aside from supplying them with oxygen to breathe?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

The astronauts and flight directors practice ALARA. As Low As Reasonably Achievable focusing on shielding and timing. Their space suits have special layers to reduce, the space craft has sections with more shielding and they can orient the better bits between them and the radiation source, and if they do spacewalks they can time to a period with least radiation.