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Athena say: They are not claiming that.
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daniel g say: You can well go past low earth orbit if you are protected from the radiation with the help of a spacecraft.
The human body by itself may not fare too well, but over 50 humans have been there.
The term 'extremely deadly' is rather overhyped in this case also. We are protected from solar radiation and wind by the magnetosphere, On the moon, the simple space suits were plenty of protection..
Bare skin exposed to such radiation would simply cook, like laying in the sun all day without sunscreen.
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Starrysky say: Send us the source of "NASA claims" and we might give some sensible answers.
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Clive say: You do realise that it was NASA that sent Neil Armstrong to the Moon? Obviously it makes no such claim.
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D g say: The belt is impenetrable to high energy particles humans are definitely not high energy particles
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Steven say: NASA did not claim any such thing. You are reading some tabloid nonsense that is trying to prove their nonsense by misquoting an authority. This is a standard ploy used by these BS artists. Please understand that the internet is full of tabloid nonsense. Some times they are trying to sell you something, sometimes they want you to support their political views, often they just get their kicks by the number of people they can fool, and sometimes they are being fooled by some one else.
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Gray Bold say: The Apollo missions marked the first event where humans traveled through the Van Allen belts, which was one of several radiation hazards known by mission planners. The astronauts had low exposure in the Van Allen belts due to the short period of time spent flying through them. Apollo flight trajectories bypassed the inner belts completely to send spacecraft through only the thinner areas of the outer belts.
Astronauts' overall exposure was actually dominated by solar particles once outside Earth's magnetic field. The total radiation received by the astronauts varied from mission to mission but was measured to be between 0.16 and 1.14 rads (1.6 and 11.4 mGy), much less than the standard of 5 rem (50 mSv) per year set by the United States Atomic Energy Commission for people who work with radioactivity.
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