A guy at the Denver airport made me rethink the whole moon landing thing

I was stuck on a long layover and got talking to an older engineer at the bar. He said, 'You ever look at the Van Allen belts? The math on getting through that radiation with 60s tech never added up for me.' He sketched something on a napkin about particle density. I'd always brushed off the hoax talk, but hearing it from someone with that background stuck. Anyone know a good source that actually addresses the radiation argument?

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leelewis3d ago

Did you ask him about the actual flight path they used? They went around the worst parts of the belts pretty fast.

jamesf263d ago

The flight path argument always comes up, leelewis. They still had to go through a lot of it, and the shielding on that craft was famously thin.

paigem453d ago

That napkin sketch got me too. I always trusted the official story, but leelewis makes a good point about the flight path. Makes you wonder what else we just accept, you know?