how radiactive is the moon and did anyone land on it?

Question

i have heard the russians didn't attemp to land on the moon because they knew the risk of radiation poisoning if anyone landed or went near it so they concentrated on sending probes to venus.

Answer 1

well the russians were and still ahead in the space race. so as usual the american public had to be fooled into thinking that they were the first to the moon. but i do see the sense in why the russians didn't attemp to go there.

Answer 2

1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.

Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean
Apollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>
Apollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell
Apollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin
Apollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke
Apollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt


2) Why haven't we been back?

a) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.

b) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary objective, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't. Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.

c) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?


3) What about the Van Allen radiation belts? Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?

The existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos. Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA.

The radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong. You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness. And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection. "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."

"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. 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." When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.


4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?

In 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.

If six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not just one moon landing, but six of them!


5) What about the USSR?

Even if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.


6) Why does the flag shake? Where are the stars?

Take a look at the first two websites listed below. They deal well with all of the technical questions.


7) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?

Answer 3

There is radiation from the Sun and other distant cosmic sources that constantly hits the Moon, but unless there is a solar flare in progress it isn't dangerous for exposures of a few days or so. The Apollo astronauts were lucky because there were some large solar flares between the flights, but none during a flight. This is no doubt one of the reasons we didn't keep doing it. Quit while you are ahead.

The Russians gave up trying to put a man on the Moon when their giant N-1 rocket blew up, four times. There were four unmanned test flights and they all blew up. It had nothing whatever to do with radiation.

Answer 4

The moon is a cold, dead rock. The United States sent several astronauts there during the 60's and 70's, armed with Geiger counters and sample boxes. While there was a bit of radiation (as there always will be), it was within the bounds of normal.
The Russians did in fact attempt to reach the Moon, but never actually succeeded. They sent a series of probes, each dubbed 'Luna', I think, but none of them made the trip.
The first probe to make it to Venus was American. I believe it was called Mariner 1.

Answer 5

Let's stop this idiocy. The Russian manned moon rocket was a disaster requiring the syncronisation of 32 rocket engines. The USA Saturn V had just 5 and was highly successful.

I read some of these idiot conspiracy sites. One supposedly intelligent writer was going on about a missile being responsible for the Pentagon. For God's sake, the dammed plane flew almost at ground level, making people duck.

It is madness to even think of anything else when there were so many witnesses.

In the case of moon landings, 300 experienced controllers operated the control rooms for 7 years of the Apollo missions. How would you get a "Hollywood" into the systems to fool them that what their banks of consoles was telling them was not real.

Just think, think, think. Don;t be gullible. Suicide bombers are gullible to what their "Masters" are telling them. You are being the same.

Think for yourselves.

Answer 6

You heard wrong. The Moon is not radioactive, at least not any more radioactive than Earth is. How could it be? The Moon is made out of pretty much the same stuff as Earth is. And we know that because 12 American men have walked on the Moon and brought back rocks from the surface. If you go down to NASA in Florida you can see the rocks for yourself - I've seen them many times, and I can attest to the fact that they are not radioactive!

Answer 7

no one knows if we landed on it for all i know this country set up 911 so i wouldn't doubt it for proof look up google.com and click video and search loose change and watch it you will think differnt about 911