do you think man has actually been to the moon?

Question

the van allen belt is dense radiation and you would need a space ship encased in 6 feet thick of lead to pass through it and unfortunately you have to pass through it to go to moon

Answer 1

Yes I do and this Allen Belt is a cop out....

Solar cells, integrated circuits, and sensors can be damaged by radiation. In 1962, the Van Allen belts were temporarily amplified by a high-altitude nuclear explosion (the Starfish Prime test) and several satellites ceased operation. Magnetic storms occasionally damage electronic components on spacecraft. Miniaturization and digitization of electronics and logic circuits have made satellites more vulnerable to radiation, as incoming ions may be as large as the circuit's charge. Electronics on satellites must be hardened against radiation to operate reliably. The Hubble Space Telescope, among other satellites, often has its sensors turned off when passing through regions of intense radiation.

An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per year.

Proponents of the Apollo Moon Landing Hoax 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. Van Allen himself, now deceased (August 9, 2006), dismissed these ideas. In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation. Astronauts who visited the moon probably have a slightly higher risk of cancer during their lifetimes, but still remain unlikely to become ill because of it.

I hope this helps,

Charlie

Answer 2

Yes, fergoodness sake! Why are people so obsessed with this!
It would have been harder to perpetrate the fake than to actually go to the moon! You can do science with the data brought back, and people have been doing science! Every Astronomy dept in the world would have had to be in on it!
Dr Phil Plait, the bad Astronomer, has done a complete debunk of the argument you are using;
The van Allen belts are regions above the Earth's surface where the Earth's magnetic field has trapped particles of the solar wind. An unprotected man would indeed get a lethal dose of radiation, if he stayed there long enough. Actually, the spaceship travelled through the belts pretty quickly, getting past them in an hour or so. There simply wasn't enough time to get a lethal dose, and, as a matter of fact, the metal hull of the spaceship did indeed block most of the radiation. For a detailed explanation of all this, my fellow Mad Scientist William Wheaton has a page with the technical data about the doses received by the astronauts. Another excellent page about this, that also gives a history of NASA radiation testing, is from the Biomedical Results of Apollo site. An interesting read!

Answer 3

The Van Allen Belt gives off radiation the radiation dosage per year is about 2500 rem, assuming one is shielded by 1 gr/cm-square of aluminum (about 1/8" thick plate) then there would be no danger to an astronaught. If they are in the space vehicle, whether it is the space station or one of space shuttles they do not travel through the Van Allen Belt as it is 4000 miles above the surface of the Earth. The voyages to the moon were done inside a space vehicle, Apollo etc, and the astronoughts were protected by the space vehicles outer shell. If you were to float in space just in a spacesuit inside the Van Allen Belt you would be bombarded by radiation. This would be harmful over a long period of time, but most EVA's carried out by astronaughts are very short and the exposure to the harmful radiation is limited.

Proponents of the Apollo Moon Landing Hoax 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. Van Allen himself, now deceased (August 9, 2006), dismissed these ideas. In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation. Astronauts who visited the moon probably have a slightly higher risk of cancer during their lifetimes, but still remain unlikely to become ill because of it.

Answer 4

Oh dear... Why can some people not accept the wonders that were achieved in the 60s? It really tears the Apollo astronauts up when people say they never went - I've met Alan Bean from Apollo 12 and if he didn't go to the Moon I'll eat my computer, he's spent the rest of his life trying to explore his experiences throught art, just because he can.
As for the Van Allen belt, sure there's a lot of radiation, but it doesn't take long to get through, it certainly did expose the astronauts to several years' worth of radiation, but not enough at that moment to do anything bad.

Answer 5

Yes, of course man has been to the moon.
There are some nonsense arguments, but they are all of poor quality and are easily answered.

Two points that I like to make:
1) Amateur astronomers all over the world watched the Apollo crafts to the moon. If it was faked, what did those thousands of people watch?
2) If anyone had reasons to doubt our claim, it was the Soviets.
But they tracked our craft as closely as we (the US) did.
If we had faked the moon landing, how did we get the Soviets to go along with it?

As for the radiation, there are many types of radiation. Some can be blocked by a piece of paper. The Apollo craft few through the Van Allen Belt quickly, which limited their exposure to radiation, and the ship was shielded effectively. There was no real danger to the astronaughts.

Answer 6

Yes, and the van Allen belts aren't as dangerous as you think. A few mm of shielding would be able to reduce the radiation to negligible limits. Also the first belt is 4000 miles out, by this time Apollo spacecraft were travelling at 25,000 miles per hour, and if they did pass through them they received only slightly more radiation than x-ray machines give out. Apollo missions were normally sent out on a trajectory that would cause them to miss the belts of go past the edge of them. No Apollo astronaut has died of a radiation related illness.

Answer 7

Dont think so homey, solar flares are the BIG problem however, we DID go to the moon and took the gamble that there wouldnt be a flare. The whole idea that we never went was started by a couple of third rate wannbe backwoods boobs!

Answer 8

I'm far more interested in modern conspiracy theories since they affect me a lot more.

Why not research the real reasons Bush went to Iraq?

Or the full story behind the 9-11 attacks the news won't cover?

Answer 9

I think so, why not. Many men went to the moon.

Answer 10

Where thefuck have you been?/ are you an alien? man went to the moon over 30 years ago.. So much for your theory