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Surviving outside the Van Allen belt would require your spaceship to have 4ft thick lead walls. I assume that is a big part of it.
by eip 8y ago
Surviving outside the Van Allen belt would require your spaceship to have 4ft thick lead walls.
I assume that is a big part of it.
- ghosterrific 8y agoThis. We never went to moon. Or if we did we: - still faked a bunch of footage. - it was not Aldrin, Armstrong, etc that went (but others who did not make it back)
- 24gttghh 8y agoThis is mostly incorrect. The Van Allen belt is not some protective shield from radiation, it is an area of concentrated radiation. There is radiation exposure once you exit the sphere of Earth's magnetic field, but I believe it is lower energy than the belt's themselves.
- eip 8y ago>it is lower energy than the belt's themselves Doesn't mean you can survive in it. A dental x-ray is probably lower energy than the belts too but if you sit in front of one for 6 hours you will likely regret it.