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The LEM's Problems / Chap. 11 p. 96
mum flare activity was reaching its peak Why did they continue the missions over the next
two years as that peak slowly declined If those vaunted 7 million dollar space suits were
any protection against that degree of radioactivity, the atomic core that melted down the pile
in TMI(Three Mile Island) could have been removed by now, instead of continuing to tick
away like an atomic time bomb.
Collectively all our astronauts spent about 90 days in space during the Apollo years.
Since the radiation from the completely unpredictable solar flares travels to the Earth or
Moon in less than 15 minutes, not much could have been done about avoiding a flare unless
you carried lead coffins to hide in. But then if you had the rocket power to add all that
weight you surely wouldn't have spaced out in paper thin hulls, a 5 psi pure oxygen atmosphere,
nor scraped Mylar from the LEM to reduce its weight.
Later, in this book you'll see NOAA's records of the solar flares for those months the
Apollo crews were in space; far beyond the protection of the Van Allen belts. When you do,
I feel sure you'll agree they should have received enough solar flare radiation to constitute a
fatal dose. Parenthetically, years before the Apollo missions a camera satellite called "Big
Bird", orbiting below the Van Allan shield, used gold canisters to protect the film from
fogging due to solar radiation. Apparently our astronauts were more than golden.
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene