Buzz Aldrin: On the Moon We Were Ordered By Aliens to Move Away (Video)

Yes, there is deadly radiation in the Van Allen belts, but the nature of that radiation was known to the Apollo engineers and they were able to make suitable preparations. The principle danger of the Van Allen belts is high-energy protons, which are not that difficult to shield against. And the Apollo navigators plotted a course through the thinnest parts of the belts and arranged for the spacecraft to pass through them quickly, limiting the exposure.

The Van Allen belts span only about forty degrees of earth’s latitude — twenty degrees above and below the magnetic equator. The diagrams of Apollo’s translunar trajectory printed in various press releases are not entirely accurate. They tend to show only a two-dimensional version of the actual trajectory. The actual trajectory was three-dimensional. The highly technical reports of Apollo, accessible to but not generally understood by the public, give the three-dimensional details of the translunar trajectory.

Each mission flew a slightly different trajectory in order to access its landing site, but the orbital inclination of the translunar coast trajectory was always in the neighborhood of 30°. Stated another way, the geometric plane containing the translunar trajectory was inclined to the earth’s equator by about 30°. A spacecraft following that trajectory would bypass all but the edges of the Van Allen belts.

This is not to dispute that passage through the Van Allen belts would be dangerous. But NASA conducted a series of experiments designed to investigate the nature of the Van Allen belts, culminating in the repeated traversal of the Southern Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly (an intense, low-hanging patch of Van Allen belt) by the Gemini 10 astronauts.

http://www.pnnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_reports/PNNL-20693.pdf

Syco247 you’re half right. Apollo era people knew there was a deadly radiation level. They did NOT know how variable that level is. They had no way of knowing what dose the astronauts would get.

They didn’t know the level could increase by 1,000 times, over the course of 12 hours. And it has nothing to do with the Sun.

You are mistaking BS for science. The principle danger is high-energy electrons, which produce X rays when they strike metal.

You are again mistaking BS for science, in saying that flying along the Moon’s orbital plane bypasses the radiation. You haven’t kept up with radiation belt studies obviously.

The size of the belts varies. Greatly. Hour by hour. And guess what, 30 degrees is inside the 40 degrees, the figure you cite for a typical day’s radiation belt size.

And guess what, you need the protection of the radiation belts. Underneath them, you solar electrons and solar protons whirling around above you. Beyond the belts, that stuff hits you directly.

That’s why nobody has even pretended to fly higher than 400 miles, EVER, except for those phony Apollo flights.

You haven’t addressed ANY of the facts I posted about the belts. (intensity, variability) Apart from the BS about protons. Do you think you’re talking to stupid people, and you can just throw crap out there?

And you haven’t explained why 21st century scientists were surprised by radiation emitted from the Moon’s surface. How could we not know already?

You don’t know any science. You know myths and propaganda.