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Originally Posted by Phoenix
the suits they were wearing didnt have radioactive protection..neither did the craft
look it up
the russians kept getting dead russians when they got sent up too far.
why havent we gone back?
why were all the top nasa officials ex nazi scientists?
what kind of funding did they stand to lose if they got some american heroes killed in space?
id like to think we went.....but have alook at the takeoff from the moon, at an early age that stood out in my mind as odd.
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"To reach the Moon astronauts would have to travel through the Van Allen Radiation Belts, resulting in lethal doses of radiation."
This is a claim the hoax advocates often make, but it is a gross exaggeration and simply not supported by the data. Radiation was a definite concern for NASA before the first space flights, but they invested a great deal of research into it and determined the hazard was minimal. It took Apollo about an hour to pass through the radiation belts - once on the outbound trip and once again on the return trip. The total radiation dose received by the astronauts was about one rem. A person will experience radiation sickness with a dose of 100-200 rem, and death with a dose of 300+ rem. Clearly the doses received fall well below anything that could be considered a significant risk. Despite claims that "lead shielding meters thick would have been needed", NASA found it unnecessary to provide any special radiation shielding.
The hoax advocates also make the mistake of limiting themselves to two-dimensional thinking. The Van Allen Radiation Belts consist of a doughnut-shaped region centered around the Earth's magnetic equator, and spanning about 40 degrees of latitude - 20 degrees above and below the magnetic equator. The translunar trajectories followed by the Apollo spacecraft were typically inclined about 30 degrees to the Earth's equator, therefore Apollo bypassed all but the edges of the radiation belts.
http://www.braeunig.us/space/hoax.htm
I'm not sure how many dead Russian astronauts there were, so I can't comment.
What NEED is there to go back?
I hadn't heard about the ex-nazi scientists, so again, can't comment.
Wouldn't they have lost their funding after Apollo 1 killed 3 astronauts on the ground?