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but my best guess is that they tried to get to the moon and after seeing that they couldn't get through the Van Allen radiation belt
"The recent Fox TV show, which I saw, is an ingenious and entertaining assemblage of nonsense. The claim that radiation exposure during the Apollo missions would have been fatal to the astronauts is only one example of such nonsense." -- Dr. James Van Allen
Because it's next. Because we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill and we saw fire; and we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the west, and we took to the sky. The history of man is on a timeline of explorations and this is What's next.
Originally posted by phishyblankwaters
reply to post by superman2012
but my best guess is that they tried to get to the moon and after seeing that they couldn't get through the Van Allen radiation belt
they got through it just fine.
www.xmission.com...
But don't take that persons word for it, or any NASA scientist. Take Van Allen's word as he stated himself:
"The recent Fox TV show, which I saw, is an ingenious and entertaining assemblage of nonsense. The claim that radiation exposure during the Apollo missions would have been fatal to the astronauts is only one example of such nonsense." -- Dr. James Van Allen
Don't feel bad. I fell for the Van Allen scam myself until I actually did some research, 3 minutes tops to find all the claims busted hard. Sorry.
This isn't to say they went to the moon or didn't, but the whole Van Allen side is closed, they can and did make it through just fine, plenty of data to back this up too if you take a minute to look for it.