Showing posts with label radiation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radiation. Show all posts

Friday, August 21, 2020

Awkward Document For NASA Regarding GCR

 

Screen shot from Space Radiation and Risks to Human Health.


When browsing through NASA’s documents every so often one finds statements that do not fit the official account.  And they don’t seem to mind the contractions.   


The document “Space Radiation and Risks to Human Health” by Janice L. Huff, Ph.D., is a case in point.  She is the  Deputy Element Scientist at the NASA Space Radiation Program and this report can be found on NASA’s technical report server. 



What caught my eye was the obvious contradiction regarding the hazards of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) and no data to evaluate human health hazards.  Ironically, one of the highlighted bullet points (see above) states there is no shielding that can block GCR.  So if the Apollo astronauts went to the moon, they would have been barraged with the cosmic rays since their capsule’s shielding would not have blocked the rays.  Should they not have the human data? 


GCR also fragments into secondary high energy particles that can as the report states, “damage biomolecules, cells and tissues.”  An illustration shows the rays passing thru a human head.


Interesting how the NASA experts know about cell and tissue damage when they say they have no human data on the health hazards to reply upon.  How do they know this?  Another bullet point is professing the need for more animal experimentation.  Which apparently they haven’t done enough of, if any.


As I wrote in my article “NASA Document Implies No Go To The Moon,” NASA has no misgiving in mocking their own narrative.  In that document from their report server, a chart indicates that the sum total of Apollo radiation exposure for all missions was the same as the Space Shuttle which never left low earth orbit.  The astronaut’s dosimeter readings were the same as being in low earth orbit as well.  The highest exposure goes to the ISS.  Yet if they actually did the moon landings they are being bathed in galactic cosmic rays for the duration of the trip to the moon, on the surface during the exploration phase, and back home again.  The consequences should have been hazardous to the health and cognitive function of the astronauts and eventually, deadly. 


Besides GCR the astronauts would have been exposed to a plethora of radiation both in sis lunar space and on the moon’s surface.  Alpha, Beta, Gamma radiation as well as microwave, x-rays, etc.  These same energies would affect astronauts on the moon as well and in another odd twist, there was no adequate shielding in the suit to block all of these high energy particles.  The weak point being the helmet which was made entirely out of plastic and offered no shielding from the radiation nor any insolation from the extreme heat and cold.  


Did NASA use black budget technology in the shielding?  Unknown.  If not, then we are looking at a con job.


Sources

Space Radiation and Risks to Human Health 

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20140005866


NASA Document Implies No Go To The Moon

http://outwardtrends.blogspot.com/2018/09/nasa-document-implies-no-go-to-moon.html

Monday, August 3, 2020

The Right Stuff Is Right This Time

Dragon Astronaut exiting capsule on August 2, 2020


It was a great day in manned space flight to see astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley slash down in the Gulf of Mexico on the afternoon of August 2.  The first time in 45 years that such an event had occurred.  The astronauts had launched from the cape on May 30 and had spent 63 days on the International Space Station.

In my article The Right Stuff Never Stumbles, I document how the Russian cosmonauts and space tourists could not remove themselves from the capsule upon landing or walking. They had to carted off the field due to the effects of being in zero (micro) gravity.  Meanwhile, the Gemini and Apollo astronauts had no issues with this at all, regarding any of their flights and landings.  One of the longest missions, Gemini 7 spent 14 days in space with astronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman.  They could extract themselves from their capsules and freely walk about minutes after landing.  

So I watched with great interest to see if the Behnken and Hurley would leave the capsule on their own or be helped out.  The rescue personnel helped both of the astronauts out of the dragon and sent them off on stretchers.  I was delighted to see this.  It proves the Dragon trip to the ISS actually happened.  In the era of Deep Fakes it is nice to see some reality for a change.  

But the success of the SpaceX/NASA Dragon does point to the phoniness of the of the NASA missions of the 1960’s and 70’s.  As stated in the Right Stuff article, the space tourists and Russian Cosmonauts could not walk upon landing due to the physical effects on the body in a weightless environment.  Micro gravity, meaning no gravity, is very harmful to the human body and gives one a since of being tremendously heavy upon return.  This is never experienced by any astronaut from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.  You can witness them getting out of the capsule on their own with no help and then freely walking around afterward. 

So Sunday’s splashdown points to more evidence of NASA Cold War myth making.


The Right Stuff Never Stumbles

https://outwardtrends.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-right-stuff-never-stumbles.html

Anousheh Ansari’s Blog - Engineer and space tourist describes the effects of after space recovery.

http://spaceblog.xprize.org/2006/10/05/second-birth/

Saturday, August 1, 2020

Lunar Geology and Ionizing Radiation


Over at Aulis, a report on lunar radiation has been posted, Lunar Geology and Ionizing Radiationby Bulcsu Siklós, PhD.  This report serves as a devastating rebuttal to the official NASA narrative of landing men on the moon.  Namely, that the radiation on the moon’s surface is too deadly and the Apollo crews did not have sufficient shielding to survive in the lunar environment. 

LINK for the Dr. Siklós report.

Links to my articles on this subject:

NASA Document Implies No Go To The Moon
Technical report showing Apollo Astronauts for all missions, only experienced the radiation exposure of low earth orbit.  


Book Review:  Spacesuit—Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchau.  A detailed account of spacesuit development that totally ignores radiation shielding in the suit.  Because there is none.


Saturday, December 28, 2019

2019 Year End Review of NASA Research

President Nixon talking to the astronauts on the moon using a rotary dial phone.



NASA research highlights.



It’s been a great year to research the Apollo moon missions and after all I have learned, I do want to believe men went to the moon and safely returned.  However, due to various discoveries if NASA documents that are freely available to the public, it is getting doubtful the moon landings actually occurred. 

The Right Stuff Never Stumbles
This is probably the clincher for the moon missions not being what we were told.  I had thought I found “smoking guns” in the past but this one is impossible to explain except via deception.  

The space tourists.  After studying their accounts, I discovered that upon landing and after spending more than 10 days in space none of them could walk.  They had to helped out the capsule, put in chairs and carted off the field to a medical tent where nurses helped them get out of the spacesuits. Digging deeper into the Russian cosmonauts and their space experiences, the same is true for them.  Why?  Because the human body is designed for gravity.  Muscles need resistance.  In zero gravity there is none and muscles loose their tone.  The body’s muscles, bone and blood degrades.  After being in space, even as little as 5 days, astronauts feel as if they are too heavy to move.  Their legs feel like tree trunks.  In 24 hours after landing everything returns to normal, though some astronauts do have lingering issues and require therapy.  

What is striking is the Gemini and Apollo astronauts.  In photographs and film they have no problem walking around on the carrier deck after being picked up at sea.  In the longest mission of 1965, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman spent 2 weeks aboard Gemini 7 in orbit.  Images show them happily walking about the deck after splashdown.  All of the Apollo astronauts after their time in space also display no problem walking moments after reentry.  

What we see in these images and films of the astronauts is something that is physically impossible.  

This is a major indicator that these astronauts were not in space as long as they said they were.  How can this be resolved?  Unless NASA developed artificial gravity technology for these missions and it secret until now, which is doubtful, we are witnessing fakery.

NASA Document Implies No Go To Moon
Probably my biggest find of the year was a NASA document found on their technical report server, analyzing the history of radiation exposure to American astronauts from the early days of Mercury to the current era of the International Space Station (ISS).

Included in the report is a chart.  It shows the radiation exposure from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle and finally, the ISS.  Incredibly, Apollo, the only manned mission that went the farthest out, is not at the top of the chart.  The International Space Station is!  Apollo is nestled in the middle right by the Space Shuttle.  The Shuttle never left low earth orbit (LEO).  So the authors of the report are suggesting that the total radiation exposure for all Apollo missions was the same as being in LEO.  But this can’t be possible if Apollo went to the moon and back because they left the earth’s protective magnetosphere.  Not to mention the hazards of flying thru the Van Allen belts and the moon itself, which is a highly radiative place.  They must have the highest exposure if they went to the moon.  Yet they place the ISS at the top of the chart for exposure.

So if Apollo’s exposure to high levels of radiation in deep space is equivalent to LEO, they ever had shielding that is a made of classified materials, secret to this day, or they didn’t complete the mission.

Clavious Is A Spook Site
Actually, I should have defined Clavious as a propaganda site.  It can still be on the Spook side with articles written by no-names, no copyrights and no sources.  This neatly laid out debunking site directed at the NASA moon hoax crowd uses the same techniques found in good disinformation projects.  They do what the players at Snopes do—only provide the right amount of information to prove a point and ignore any issues or evidence that contradict.  Like Snopes, it all reads good and the explanations seem plausible till you dig a bit deeper.  With no sources to expand upon, it is as if they have no need to prove anything.  Take our word for it and move along!

A good example of this is Clavious’s explanation regarding how astronauts could survive getting thru the Van Allen radiation belts.  They use the common and seemingly sensible theory of using a 30° trajectory that would send the spacecraft thru the outer fringes of the belts, lessening the radiation impact on the astronauts.  Sounds feasible till you start looking around for NASA documents to prove this.  If they used a 30° trajectory, which launch would that be?  All of them?  It is never stated.  What is the source document for this?  Not stated.  

I dug around and found a document for the launch trajectory for Apollo 14.  It stated an apogee of 90°.  I don’t know if this is similar for all of the launches.  But what this report does prove is they are not skirting around the edges of radiation belts, but instead flying straight thru them.

Additionally, Frank Borman stated as much in his book, Countdown, that Apollo 8 traveled straight thru the belts and the crew only got a radiation dose equivalent to a chest x-ray.  No fancy flying there!  And no harm done from the alleged radiation danger which Borman wrote off as much to do about nothing.

Did the damaged Apollo 13 and crew limp home thru the edges of the Van Allen belts?  No.  They did a slingshot trajectory and headed straight home through the belts.  They didn’t have the fuel to do anything more except get home alive.

Ultimately, Clavious comes off as well organized and reasonable with seemingly excellent rebuttals to Moon Hoaxers.  That is, till one explores the subject in more detail.  But if NASA really succeeded in sending a man to the moon, why not rebuff the critics with real data and not unsourced made-up commentary?

The Mystery of Apollo 13
And a mystery it is.  One of the mysteries was why did James Lovell, commander of the mission write in his book that the Command Service Module (CSM) weighed 64,000 pounds in zero gravity?  And that the weight was throwing off the “center of gravity” messing up the guidance system? The only reviewer of this book on Amazon to point this nonsense out is me.  Do people not think anymore?  

To compound the Lovell’s weird narrative regarding this disaster that nearly killed him and two other men (provided this event actually took place) is NASA’s technical report on the debacle.  It lists 13 times fuel or water weighing in quantities of pounds.  For example, before they shut down the power in the CSM, they withdrew 14 pounds of water and moved it over the LEM for storage.  How did they weigh that in zero G?  I’d like to see that scale.  Oh, never mind!  

Even the electronic schematics are screwy.  One diagram lists an output with no input.  You have to have the input or else there will be no output!  I thought these guys are billed as engineering geniuses?  But they can’t properly draw up a wiring diagram?  

From Apollo 13 is birthed the NASA “can do” agency myth.  The stuff of legend.  Even more legendary is how the engineers sussed out what went wrong without being able to examine or test the damaged hardware.  Something that would normally take months.  Rocket scientists from MIT or Wizards from Hogwarts School of Wizardry?

It should be noted that when our heroes triumphantly appeared on deck of the carrier, once again, they did not have to crawl.  No problem walking at all. 

Magic Handles And Magic Glass
Once again NASA makes the impossible, possible!  In this case, making components that are resistant to heat damage.   Both the aluminum handles on the CSM capsule and the glass in the windows far exceed their heat tolerance upon reentry.  The handles melting point is at 1,180 degrees Fahrenheit and the glass begins melting at 3,110 degrees Fahrenheit.  Reentry temperatures rise as high as 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.  Yet the handles never melt and no damage ever occurs on the glass windows in all of the Apollo flights.  In some pictures the handles look in extraordinary shape considering the high temperatures they were exposed to.  

Something like this is a common pattern when investigating NASA.  Their achievements border on the mythological.  Yet there they are, claiming to have done some nearly miraculous deed.  Such as seen in the top image of President Nixon talking to the astronauts on the moon with a rotary dial phone.  The longest distance call ever!  What is the area code again?  Try to get a mobile phone connection anywhere that is that good today!  


Sources and Links

Articles






Other Links
Apollo 14 flight Trajectory 

Clavious and the Van Allen belts


Sunday, July 14, 2019

Book Review: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux



It’s An Empty Suit


Spacesuit--Fashioning Apollo is one of the most elegant and beautifully designed and printed books available.  It’s a paperback edition but the cover jacket has a smooth, rubberized coating.  It’s a pleasure to hold in one’s hands.  This is an experience that no digital book can ever match.  

Although published in 2011 by M.I.T. Press​,​ the information regarding the NASA spacesuits, with the emphasis on the Apollo suits is relatively up to date.  The author explores the development of spacesuits from the early pressure suits in the 1930’s onward to the space program of the 1960’s.  There is not much to be said in this book regarding spacesuits in the Shuttle era and beyond.  The author Nicholas de Monchaux does provide a good history of suit development for mankind’s reach for the stars.  

Since this book is published by the United States’s most distinguished science and engineering universities I was looking for various technical details that unfortunately, this book does not provide.  And that was the main reason I bought this book in the first place.  It is in fact, more of an easy reading account of spacesuit development for the masses.

Radiation

“NASA’s focus now is on sending humans beyond low-Earth orbit to Mars… We are trying to develop the technologies to get there, it is actually a huge technological challenge. There are a couple of really big issues. For one thing – Radiation. Once you get outside the Earth’s magnetic field we are going to be exposing the astronauts to not just radiation coming from the Sun, but also to cosmic radiation. That's a higher dose than we think humans right now should really get.”

– Dr Ellen Stofan, Chief Scientist, NASA, and principal advisor
to NASA Administrator – BBC Newsnight interview, November 2014

"Astronauts on the lunar surface could in reality be exposed to every kind of radiation – alpha, beta, microwave, x-ray, gamma, Bremsstrahlung, Cherenkov radiation, Askaryan radiation, high-energy protons and neutrons, galactic cosmic rays (GCR) and solar particle events (SPE)."

LUNAR GEOLOGY AND IONIZING RADIATION from a Revisionist Perspective

– Dr Bulcsu István Siklós


There are many hazards in space once people leave the safety of the protective magnetosphere of the earth and radiation is one of the main hazards.  It’s coming from everywhere and fills the vacuum of space.  There are cosmic galactic rays, gamma rays, x rays, charged protons and neutrons, just to mention a few.  The surface of the moon is basically a nuclear hazmat zone.  Even the famous moon dust is radiative.  That, coupled with extremes of heat and cold in a heavy vacuum, designates the surface of the moon a place where no life could ever exist.

My main interest was discovering the radiation protection in the spacesuits.  As it turned out, the book mentions nothing about it.  There is no documentation of radiation shield development, testing, or anything related.  Even the word “radiation” is not listed in the index.  The fact that 21 layers of various synthetic materials were used and not a single one has a reference to radiation in a book such as this, is a major omission.  On the contrary, it is not mentioned by NASA either.  One would think radiation shielding would be one of the most important aspects of a spacesuit, and it has no bearing in this book.  (It should be noted that the Apollo spacesuit manual, linked below, which can be downloaded from NASA makes no mention of radiation protection in the suit or helmet either.)

It is unconscionable to believe that the astronauts would be placed in such a hazardous environment without protection from one of the main hazards they faced on the surface of the moon--death by high energy particles. 

The multiple layers of insulation for thermal protection are documented, particularly the use of aluminized mylar which is listed for thermal protection.  So at least the astronauts had protection for heat over 200 degrees and cold temperatures of over -200 degrees on the moon.  But the development of this material gets no mention.   How was plastic and a metal bonded together?  How does it work to protect an astronaut?  How was it tested for this purpose?  The reader is never told. ​​Just as the beta cloth covering gets nothing more than a vague mention.

Is radiation shielding in the spacesuits classified?
Apollo spacesuit layers. Radiation shielding not listed. Image courtesy of NASA.


Don’t leave out the helmet!
Yes, it is left out of any mention in relation to spacesuit development and astronaut protection for the moon's hazardous environment.  If one reads the NASA Apollo spacesuit manual, it mentions the helmet being constructed out of polycarbonate.  In other words, plastic.  The visor assembly was polycarbonate as well.  Another fact that Fashioning Apollo makes no mention of since helmet development is ignored.

But the most distressing part of my own research into this matter involves finding that the spacesuit helmet has no thermal or lethal radiation protection of any kind, as so stated in the NASA spacesuit manual.  It does feature a beta cloth covering but that is just flame retardant cloth with fiberglass woven in.  It does not protect from the aforementioned hazards.  To be fair, the gold visor does protect the astronaut’s eyes from damaging ultraviolet rays but those rays are not life threatening.  It can hardly be expected for a thin layer of plastic to protect a person from the harmful radiation and severe heat and cold.  Why put thermal protection in the suit but ignore the helmet?  How the astronauts, if they actually walked on the moon, survived being there is a mystery.  A big enough mystery to strongly question if men actually landed there at all.

Do their heads not matter? 

In closing
There is so much more that could have been written in Fashioning Apollo to round out what the public can know about spacesuits.  The history of development is good but the author often jumps into fashion design of the 1950’s, how television works from the moon, JFK, the flight simulators, artist Robert Rauschenberg’s astronaut prints, and then leaves the reader in the lurch for the good stuff.  The radiation shielding should hold an important place in a book of this kind, but it is never covered.  

What is to be found here?  An empty suit.

Notes
Excellent article at Aulis by Scott Henderson--Apollo Space Suits: Shenanigans and Shortcomings. A must read on the space suit controversy.  

https://www.aulis.com/suits.htm

The Dangers of Space Radiation

LUNAR GEOLOGY AND IONISING RADIATION from a Revisionist Perspective

NASA Apollo Spacesuit manual

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Of Spacesuits and Helmets

Neil Armstrongs's alleged spacesuit. Note the blue overboots.  They are gray in the moon images.

NASA documentation shows that Apollo spacesuits offered little to no radiation protection.


Studying the Apollo moon landings is about like studying the JFK assassination.  Down one rabbit trail after the other.  A very contradicting trail.  Some of the official statements and published documents that describe how the feat of building complicated space craft to land men on the moon in just 8 years, comes off as a poorly written science fiction drama where the author cannot keep his plot threads from conflicting.  In other instances, no explanation is available at all.  This not only includes NASA at the time of the Apollo program, but years later when the goal shifts back to returning to the moon with the Orion program.  

Spacesuits And Radiation
Radiation is probably one of the most hazardous conditions affecting manned space flight.  The fist hurdle is the Van Allen Radiation belts, the earth’s donut shaped force field.  It traps numerous particles and blocks the solar wind.  It is widely known that the belts are a great hazard and hence, impediment to manned space flight.  Dr. Van Allen stressed this fact in science articles in the late 1950’s.  Ironically, none of the astronauts in their books have an issue with these radiation belts, passing thru them, to and fro, with no harm.  Frank Borman commander of Apollo 8 stated in his book Countdown, that they traveled thru the thickest part of the Van Allen belts and the radiation exposure was the equivalent of a chest x-ray.  Even before Apollo, in 1966 Gemini flight 11 reached a record altitude of 875 miles above earth which would place them in the first of the two belts.  Once again, no harm was reported.

Once past that, the moon presents a toxic hazmat zone filled with an unrelenting flow of radiative particles such cosmic radiation, gamma rays, microwaves, x-rays and on on.  Even the ground soil is radiated.  A study of the Apollo spacesuit and its development and use, not much is said regarding the radiation shielding in the suit.  In NASA’s spacesuit manual, they list numerous layers of aluminized mylar film used in the suit interior to protect the astronaut.  The manual specifically makes note that multiple layers of aluminized mylar were used for the protection of thermal radiation.  Thermal is heat.  You can experience that on a sunny day at the beach.  But that is not nuclear radiation.  In this case, NASA is defining the suit as protecting the astronaut from environmental conditions which is needed with the moon surface temperature in direct sunlight ranging form 260 to 280 degrees Fahrenheit (123-137 C). 

The only other radiation listed in the manual is ultraviolet radiation which can damage the astronaut’s eyes, solved by the use of the gold visor.  

Nuclear radiation hazards are never mentioned or addressed for the safety of the astronaut wearing the suit.

Even TV documentaries are silent about this issue, such as the episode of Moon Machines on the SCI Channel discussing the development of the Apollo spacesuit.  It never mentioned radiation shielding in the resulting design.  One would think this would be an important feature to develop for the safety of the astronauts.  But once again, it is never mentioned. 

Researcher Marcus Allen, a believer in the moon hoax theory, said he contacted a contractor building spacesuits and inquired about the radiation shielding used in the suit.  They told him to contact NASA as they didn’t build shielding in the suits they constructed for use by the astronauts. 

The moon itself is radioactive.  NASA’s science site (see link below) states that gamma rays cause nuclear reactions in the soil making it radioactive.  Astronauts said the moon dirt got all over their suits and gear, with one astronaut stating that some got in his mouth.  Yet, none of them ever got radiation sickness or resulting health issues from exposure to moon dirt. 

How do the “experts” deal with these conflicting issues?  They simply state that the astronauts were not in the intense radiation zones (Van Allen belts, cislunar space, the moon) long enough to experience any serious effects from life threatening radiation.  Which is nonsense.  Russian scientists about in the 1960’s concluded that the radiation was severe enough to require 4 feet of lead shielding which is utterly impractical.  It is hard to understand how the astronauts could have survived in such a toxic environment regardless of how long they were there in EVA on the moon and not suffer serious consequences.  The proper shielding is not there as stated in NASA documents.  None of the Apollo astronauts who were alleged to have flown to, or landed on the moon, were ever effected by radiation sickness during, or after, the missions.  And all of this with spacesuits, as stated above in multiple NASA technical reports, that did not have proper radiation shielding!  These suits could not be used for Hazmat work on earth during a nuclear power plant emergency, so why would they be any good for use in the most dangerous radiation zone of them all—the surface of the moon?

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders.  Note the lack of shielding or insulation in his plastic helmet.

The Helmet
Besides the lack of radiation shielding from the suit, it should be noted that the spacesuit helmet, crafted from Lexan polycarbonate (i.e., plastic), has no shielding from either thermal or nuclear based radiation, nor insulated from conditions of extreme heat or cold.  The only safeguard is the gold visor for the afore mentioned ultraviolet radiation, which is the only type of radiation protection, besides thermal, which is heat, listed in NASA’s documentation.  The polycarbonate material is rated to handle temperatures up to 297 degrees Fahrenheit, safe enough for surface temperatures on the moon, although it will deform at above 240 degrees Fahrenheit (something never seen or documented by NASA).  There is no data on this form of plastic in conjunction with below freezing temperatures.

Underneath the suit the astronauts wear a liquid cooling garment (LCG) featuring water filled tubes for keeping the astronaut cool. (It is unknown how this cooling system turned warm for the severely cold shadow areas on the moon.) It fully covers the body and is used in spacesuits to this day.  However, while the tubing extends to the feet, it does not cover the head or the hands. As already stated, there is no thermal insulation in the helmet but the outside is covered in beta cloth which is flame resistant, but it is not explained how this protects the person inside from the severe extremes of temperature and radiation on the moon’s surface.  It seems unlikely that the astronaut’s hands would be safe in the temperature extremes with the type of insolation protection the suit’s gloves provided.  

The end result is a helmet that offers little way of protect from the moon’s extreme environmental conditions.  Even NASA’s gamma ray experiments on the helmet showed no protection at all, with the gamma rays easily passing through the thin polycarbonate structure.  

In Summary
There is a disturbing lack of concern for the hazards astronauts encounter in space and on the moon. Astronauts in their interviews and written accounts say precious little regarding this mortal danger. And no proper explanation is coming forth form NASA as their documentation is sorely lacking in solving this issue.  Basically, the spacesuit’s purpose is to offer protection from extremes of heat and cold, micrometers, vacuum of space, low gravity and visual protection.  One will never read about protection from x-rays, gamma rays, ionized protons or any other types of radiation that will be present on the moon’s surface.  It is as if radiation hazards do not exist at all!

If NASA put men on the moon they were using classified technology to accomplish the mission.  There is apparently no radiation protection in their suits.  Or else, they didn’t go at all and the moon landings were one big charade on the American tax payers and the world.  Or, the true nature of space and it’s properties and hazards has not been explained to us at all.

If people don’t believe that man landed on the moon it is NASA’s fault.  Go to their web site and do some research and you will see why.


Sources

Spacesuit manual

Space Helmet

Lexan Polycarbonate

Moon Soil Radioactive

NASA Technical Docs Site

Aluminum Shielding

Aluminum not a good block for Gama rays