Originally Posted by
Jason Mallory
Here is Alan Bean from Apollo 12 admitting that even though the Van Allen radiation belts were discovered before the Apollo flights NASA made no special preparations to protect the people from the radiation. In fact, this guy who 'went to the moon' didn't even know that he went through the belts.
That probably is the case but did you read the document I posted from NASA? They admitted that their only precautions were to drive fast as hell through the radiation to reduce exposure time to nominal levels and then they had a dosimeter to monitor radiation levels as they passed through the belt. They punched the numbers and presumed that 2 hours of exposure wasn't lethal and after the fact discovered that the radiation exposure was within "allowable" tolerances (this during a time of DDT, lead paint, and asbestos). Yes, that means that the first guys through the belt were probably guinea pigs because even if the dosimeter went through the roof with radiation measurements it wasn't like they could just flip a bitch and get out of there (i presume).
If you wanted to argue against NASAs presumptions then you would have to look at the mapped Van Allen Belt and do the math yourself for radiation exposure over a 2 hour time frame. That stuff is way over my head though so I'm at a dead end on this issue. But then again, you would have to believe that NASA did indeed measure and map the Van Allen Belt.
And apparently the take off video was shot by a lunar rover that was left behind and controlled by remote from NASA.
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