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Originally Posted by knot_e_lady  The radiation in space isn't like the radiation here on earth. It is VERY low dose, so the only way you can get sick from it is if you stay in it for a month or more. Obviously the Apollo flights never took that long.
Also, if a solar flare did pop up, they have hours, even days before detection of the flare and the time it reaches earth. By that time the astronauts are either out of harm's way, or they turn the ship so that the bulk of the landing module faces the flares, then the bulk of the ship plus the fuel will hold off the radiation. | The 1485 flares mentioned REACHED earth during the moon landing. Quote: |
Originally Posted by tyreay John Mauldin, a physicist who works for NASA, once said shielding at least two meters thick would be needed. Yet the walls of the Lunar Landers which took astronauts from the spaceship to the moons surface were, said NASA, about the thickness of heavy duty aluminum foil. | I think I'll take the word of a physicist working for NASA. Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~Alexis de Tocqueville |