Also how did Neil Armstrong make it to be 80 if he went through an extremely deadly radiation belt around the earth?
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Mike1942f say: A. He didn't go through the harshest part of the belts and went through very quickly. The radiation all the moon people were exposed to on the whole trip was about equal to a CT scan.
And you need to link to site where NASA makes that claim so we can judge the conditions, if the claim exists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLtgS2_q...
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poldi say: NASA has never claimed we can't go past low Earth orbit.
They should know - NASA is who sent Armstrong and the others to the moon.
And Van Allen himself (the guy that discovered the Van Allen Belts) said the radiation would be negligible to someone inside a metal space craft.
So perhaps you should find more reliable sources of information.
You didn't even read the article in your own link, did you. Or if you read it you didn't understand it - maybe get a grown up to explain it to you.
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quantumclaustrophobe say: NASA never said that. And, the danger of radiation has two considerations - what kind it is (high energy photons vs heavy nuclear particles), and how *much* you're exposed... passing through the Van Allen belts did raise their exposure - but it wasn't deadly.
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tham153 say: This is a false claim, NASA has NEVER said such a thing. Challenge whoever told you this to show where NASA says this.
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Brigalow Bloke say: Citation needed.
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YKhan say: There are two separate issues here. First about low-earth orbit, that's where you would keep long-term flight missions, such as the Space Shuttle or ISS, because the Van Allen belts don't extend down into low-Earth orbit.
Secondly, the Apollo missions to the Moon weren't long-term missions to orbit Earth, they were blasting past Earth orbit as quickly as possible on their way to the Moon, any exposure to the radiation here would only last an hour or two. Also, the Van Allen belts are created by Earth's magnetic field interacting with the Solar Wind. So they don't exist all around the Earth, they actually don't exist closer to the Earth's magnetic poles (see the diagram below), so you can actually manoeuvre your spaceship around the belts, either above or below them.