My question is: Just how did we go thru it then on the way to moon?
BTW, I KNOW we did go there because of the mirrors for reflecting earth based lasers were placed by astronauts.
2006-08-16 10:17:41 · 8 answers · asked by charly 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Astrononauts only spent a couple of hours in the radiation belts each time they went through them. The radiation in the Van Allen Belts is not strong enough to penetrate to the vital organs in that amount of time, and that's what really counts. We may have made the astronauts a bit more likley to get skin cancer, but nothing more serious than that.
2006-08-16 10:26:38 · answer #1 · answered by April C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Short answer: NASA engineers timed the launches to minimize the radiation, and the transfer orbits to the moon were designed to only skirt the belts to minimize radiation.
Long answer (mathematics): A satellite in the Van Allen Belt, protected by 3 mm of aluminum shielding (like the Apollo module), would encounter radiation of, on average, 2500 rem per year. Even if NASA didn't bother taking the precautions above, that means if the astronauts spent eight days in the belt, they would receive a dosage of 55 rems; this is a conservative estimate, they most likely spent only four days in the belt region, which would result in about a 30 rem dosage.
At any rate, a 50 rem dosage would likely result in no permanent symptoms (a mild headache and temporary male sterility - yikes), but not enough to kill anyone. The point is, while the Van Allen belt could cause death, it would have required the Apollo to stay much longer in the region of the belt than it actually did.
2006-08-17 16:20:53 · answer #2 · answered by ndcardinal3 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what in the world are you talking about? The guy who said we DIDN'T go probably thinks that the Jews were not slaughtered in World War 11 . Most likely he's the same genius who got all the little kids on this site all worried about June 6, 2006. That day is a VERY special day in the history of the world...it has nothing to do with the stupid stuff the kids were worried about. This,too, is a bit inane. Of course we went to the moon.
2006-08-16 17:21:35 · answer #3 · answered by I am Sunshine 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Van Allen Belt will kill you.... but only if you stay for a couple of days, not the minutes it took to pass through.
2006-08-16 17:23:12 · answer #4 · answered by trouthunter 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heavy shielding protected the astronauts and their electronics from the effects of the radiation.
2006-08-16 17:23:25 · answer #5 · answered by triviatm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will believe we did not when someone can show me hard evidence. Real proof, not a bunch of X files crap. I think we did. No matter what junk I have heard so far, that's all it is... what we heard. Those scientists still think that we came from apes..what do they know Really? They make allot of mistakes too.
2006-08-16 17:22:41 · answer #6 · answered by poisonivy4913 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe that we have ever went to the moon,or ever will.Then I saw a research documentary that showed how they had made it up and all the dicrepencies in the film footage ect.I know that man has achieved a lot,but I do not think they ever went to the moon.
2006-08-16 17:35:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A good response to all this hoax nonsense is found here:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
2006-08-16 17:26:08 · answer #8 · answered by Richard H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋