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These factors may induce persistent oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, DNA double-strand breaks, and repair pathway challenges. This review examines the impacts of space radiation on the hematopoietic, neural, and gastrointestinal systems. Human spaceflight observations indicate that exposure to space radiation may be associated with bone marrow suppression, reduced lymphocyte counts, diminished thymic output, and immune dysfunction, which may heighten susceptibility to infection and inflammation. Preclinical animal model research indicates that even low doses of space-relevant radiation may induce cognitive decline, memory deficits, anxiety-like behaviors, and neurodegenerative alterations, though these findings remain to be validated in human astronauts. Proposed mechanisms include impaired hippocampal synaptic plasticity, neuroinflammatory activation, and mitochondrial energy metabolism imbalance. 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