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To: cdnerds

Some say man cannot get thru the Van Allen Radiation belts.


19 posted on 08/31/2022 2:29:58 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: C210N
Some say man cannot get thru the Van Allen Radiation belts.

Not naked, for sure. It isn't any problem when you are in a 3/8" thick spacecraft and spend only 12 minutes passing through. The dosimeters returned by the astronauts indicated that it was less radiation than a chest X-ray.

42 posted on 08/31/2022 4:44:23 PM PDT by GingisK
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