Some critics of the moon landings claim that the astronauts could not have survived passing through the van Allen belts; they would have died instantly of radiation poisoning. One claims that six feet of lead shielding would need to have surrounded the space craft in order for them to survive.
Now the six feet of shielding rings a bell. Back in the sixties I recall reading a book, then recently published, about the unlikelihood of space travel. The book mentioned that for a trip to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, it would take some 200,000 years, and that six feet of lead shielding would be needed to protect the generations of travelers from the harmful effects of cosmic rays over their respective lifetimes. Since the van Allen belts don't even reach to the moon, let alone the nearest star, the reference falls short of supporting the hoaxers' claim. At the turn of the twentieth century people used to spend hours before fluoroscopes before they discovered the dangers of radiation damage. These people absorbed much more radiation than the astronauts experienced from the equatorial regions of the van Allen belts. It took years for the effects to manifest themselves. So there is neither evidence nor authority behind the hoaxers' claim that six feet of lead shielding is needed to survive a pass through the van Allen belts. ..."
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