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That's a good starting point, but caveats:
My bet is that most of our thermal circulation is via the movement of our blood. That's probably not directly analogous to spacecraft.
If one isn't just talking thermal, we do burn at 1AU. Go lie in the sun without cover long enough -- especially if you're pale-skinned -- long enough, and you'll get burned. Without the atmosphere, we'd be hit by more UV light, too.
Agreed. With no suit or any other thermal management tech, it's going to be hard to survive anywhere just on thermal grounds alone.
However, let's say you want to mitigate problems with sunburn and climb to a higher solar orbit. I haven't calculated anything. But my intuition says you're no longer getting enough heat input, and you will end up freeze dried. (The dried part is a vacuum effect we were told to ignore.)
Without the atmosphere, UV is going to be among the least dangerous wavelengths for you to have to worry about.
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I don't think that it mostly stops more-energetic stuff.
Hmm.
Are you thinking of the magnetosphere rather than the atmosphere? I didn't mention that, but I guess that'd also be a factor.
The atmosphere stops a lot of the high energy stuff. It gets absorbed, and turned into a shower of lower energy particles.
I remember reading once about an astronaut seeing blue flashes in their eyes. When they realised, they got behind the water tank sharpish. It was high energy particles passing through their eyeballs.