Has the issue of radiation exposure in relationship to the alleged Apollo missions ever been adequately addressed within the mainstream culture?
More specifically, is it true that one reason for why astronauts could not have been sent to the Moon is that the exposure to radiation that they would receive in space would be absolutely lethal for them if they were forced to depend on conventional technology for shielding from this radiation? This is what I have heard and I was wondering if you know more about this.
Thanks, John!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 937801
Thank you AC, those are very kind words.
On January 31, 1958 Explorer 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral.
On this rocket, Dr. James Van Allen had placed a geiger counter.
He knew that earlier stratospheric balloons had already registered high radioactive counts so the results of Explorer 1 were not really unexpected.
Explorer 1's orbit was elliptical 360-2500 kilometers.
As the rocket climbed, the Geiger counter went off the scale and then quit.
So then Explorer 2 was launched on March 5, 1958. but never reached orbit because of rocket failure.
Explorer 3 was then launched on May 26, 1958. As Explorer three got higher, the radioactivity was so strong the Geiger counter went to max, overloaded and failed. No more readings.
One of the scientists present at the launch Ernie Gray exclaimed, "My God, space is radioactive!"
The amount of radiation measured from Explorers 1 and 3 exceeded the capacity of the instruments by a factor of 1000. (America's Space Science Institute.)
To make matters worse the U.S. began launching nuclear bombs from Johnston Island into the stratosphere over the Pacific seriously altering the shape of the Van Allen belt and increasing its intensity and in addition creating a lower Van Allen belt. Some allege that scientists were trying to 'blow up' the Van Allen belt but simply made it worse.
I estimate that the bombs detonated in the stratosphere in the late 50's and early 60's by the U.S. and Russia dropped more harmful radiation on the world than 10 times what the Japan nuclear disaster has released to date, and that between 1958 and 1980 there were 3 separate attempts to 'blow up ' the Van Allen belt, each attempt causing more damage than the last.
The shielding capacity of the Apollo capsule was only 7.5 thousands of the shielding provided by the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field at the equator.
This means that comparatively speaking the Apollo astronauts would have been flying naked thorough the Van Allen belts if they had truly gone into space.
Shielding equal to that on earth would have required a wall of water 30 feet thick or a lead wall about 34 inches thick.
Current NAZA disinformation artists would have you believe that the Apollo astronauts went on the 'edge' of the Van Allen belt (there is no 'edge', it is solid from 500 miles to 25,000 miles) and that anyway 'they were going too fast for radiation to harm them.'
Informed scientists say that the astronauts, if they had actually flown through the Van Allen belt the astronauts would have received 900 mSv in the one and a half hours it would have taken to go through the Van Allen belt. And the same on the alleged trip back.
0.5-1 Sv: Changes in blood count, reddening of the skin. in some cases nausea, vomiting, rarely death.
1-2 Sv Detrimental effects on bone marrow, vomiting, nausea, general sense of being unwell 20% mortality.
Have a great day.
*(much of the preceeding was taken from "One Small Step" The Great Moon Hoax and the Race to Dominate Earth From Space by Gerhard Wisnewski. I recommend purchasing the book asap.)
