[Jan_Sobieski]

Here’s a question for you!

With all the great data and lessons learned from those “moon missions” 238,000 miles away, why do we still have Trouble even getting a shuttle into orbit and back 200 miles up without blowing up on launch or re-entry? Why not go 1000 miles up and measure radiation levels in the Van Allen belts? Or 30,000 miles to measure cosmic radiation levels outside the belts?

[NorthMountain]

Why do you capitalize “Trouble”. That’s weird.

You won’t bait me into defending the design of the STS/Space Shuttle. It was a horrible kludge, designed in a way that defied lessons learned from previous work, and STILL only crashed twice out of more than 100 flights. Meanwhile, Falcon9/Dragon works just fine, and even Soyuz is very reliable. Simply put, we DON’T have “Trouble (sic)” getting men into orbit.

Spacecraft from LEO to MEO to GEO to interplanetary space measure their radiation environment. It’s routine.

But you already know all this.