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Originally posted by goose
Yes but many believe they are a hoax and the van allen belt is a reasonable reason to believe that it is a hoax so if there have not been any since then it would certainly support that theory of it being a hoax.
Originally posted by goose
Yes but many believe they are a hoax and the van allen belt is a reasonable reason to believe that it is a hoax so if there have not been any since then it would certainly support that theory of it being a hoax.
Conspiracy theorists have argued that space travel to the moon is impossible because the Van Allen radiation would kill or incapacitate an astronaut who made the trip. In practice, even at the peak of the belts, one could live for several months without receiving a lethal dose.
Apollo nevertheless deliberately timed their launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation. Astronauts that have travelled to the moon probably have an increased lifetime risk of cancer, but would be expected not to (and did not) have noticeable illness.
Originally posted by goose
Yeah but in 1969 about the best we could do was a tin can with reynolds wrap, technology wise, seriously we did not have the technology to get past the van allen belt then and I am wondering if we have the technology to get past it now and especially to get a manned flight past it now.
Originally posted by Seekerof
Note:
Conspiracy theorists have argued that space travel to the moon is impossible because the Van Allen radiation would kill or incapacitate an astronaut who made the trip. In practice, even at the peak of the belts, one could live for several months without receiving a lethal dose.
Apollo nevertheless deliberately timed their launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation. Astronauts that have travelled to the moon probably have an increased lifetime risk of cancer, but would be expected not to (and did not) have noticeable illness.
Van Allen radiation belt
seekerof
[edit on 20-10-2005 by Seekerof]
as posted by goose
But none of that answers my question, which was, have we ever gotten past the van allen belt, other than the trip to the moon? If so was it manned space flight?
Originally posted by cmdrkeenkid
Originally posted by goose
Yeah but in 1969 about the best we could do was a tin can with reynolds wrap, technology wise, seriously we did not have the technology to get past the van allen belt then and I am wondering if we have the technology to get past it now and especially to get a manned flight past it now.
Umm... and you're getting this half-brained information from where? Hoagland or one of his offshoots?
Originally posted by Seekerof
as posted by goose
But none of that answers my question, which was, have we ever gotten past the van allen belt, other than the trip to the moon? If so was it manned space flight?
Google is a wonderful tool, goose.
As to your question(s), the only manned space flights that have gone through or skirted the Van Allen Belt are those that have gone to the moon, for the only manned space flights were only to the moon. There have been a multitude of unmanned space flights that have passed through the Van Allen Belt.
List of human spaceflights, 1961-1986
Unmanned space flights
seekerof