[SunkenCiv]

It is strange. The idea that the Moon landings were faked started early. The raging dips... who first championed it (or at least, the first one to become infamous doing so; he’s now deceased I think) worked (if memory serves) for a contractor or subcontractor on the space program. He wound up getting fired for who knows what, but before he did, he started making the utterly stupid ignorant and ridiculous claim that humans couldn’t survive passage through the Van Allen Belts.

[colorado tanker]

I seem to remember concern about an astronaut surviving transit of the Van Allen belts, perhaps in the 50’s? By the time I heard about it in the 60’s it seemed to be in the same category as the fear an aircraft would break up if it exceed the sound “barrier.”