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Hot take: The moon landing denial crowd actually has one decent point
I was at a diner in Akron last month and this old guy started talking about the Van Allen belts. I always rolled my eyes at that stuff but he showed me a NASA document from 1962 saying radiation exposure would be fatal. Now I still think we landed on the moon obviously, but the way NASA hand-waves that part has always seemed off to me. Has anyone actually read the official explanation for how they got through those belts without getting fried?
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simonl869d ago
Yeah, just look up the Apollo trajectory. They didn't fly straight through the belts, they went through the thinnest part and it only took a few hours. NASA's own numbers show the total dose was like a chest x-ray. The 1962 doc was before they had any data from actual unmanned probes flying through there.
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