Rene-NASA-Mooned-America

Sunstroke / Chap. 15 p. 132
Had the astro-nots been in the command capsule in space during this 10-day period, their
skin would have absorbed 2,780 rem. Their whole body radiation would have amounted to
263 rem. This is arrived at by simple addition of the numbers in the chart. McKinnon on
page 14 somehow claims that they would have had only 33.9 rem. Their skin would have
taken 358 rems but according to the information Mr. McKinnon was given this too would
have presented no problem. He has this to say about skin dosage, "Acute dose to skin of
1000 rems produces itching and reddening." 13 Then he adds to this statement, "3000 rems to
epidermis is sufficient to cause severe radiation burns requiring skin grafts." 14
Forgive me, but something is very wrong here. Mauldin needs 2 meters (6 feet) of
shielding, but NASA tells you that the walls of the space craft block most of the radiation.
Frankly, I don't believe that the tissue paper thin walls (so to speak) of either the LEM or
command capsule provide the protection that is reflected in McKinnon's tables. I don't
believe his "Whole Body Radiation Chart". The chart must be from the AEC (Atomic
Energy Commission), but the data on the radiation shielding is from NASA, and both of
these agencies are two of the most untruthful and ax-grinding bureaucracies in existence.
I knew that somewhere I had read that 170 rems is dangerous and almost guarantees a
cancerous future. I searched and searched and finally found the source. Much to my surprise
it wasn't 170 rems but 170 millirads. which is equal to 170 millirems. This dosage is one
thousandth of 170 rems. 15
No wonder the SST aborts its flight plan at 100 millirems. Mc Kinnon's chart shows the
lowest category to be 0 to 60,000 millirems (60 rem), and claims it is harmless. And the
other chart now shows that on August 4, 1972 a man in a space capsule would have had
32,000 millirems (32 rems) of exposure.
During the Gemini 10 mission, when Collins didn't walk in space (or else why did
NASA doctor the pictures), he reported that he received .78 rads during the first 24 hours in
space. He called this an insignificant dose. 16 NASA reported no major flares so I must
assume that there were none, but that was for less than an hour outside the ship. All the
Gemini missions stayed beneath the Van Allen shield and also spent half their time in the
Earth's shadow. Still they received the 'insignificant' dose of 780 millirems. That's almost
eight times as much as it takes to send an SST streaking for cover. One wonders what daily
dosage would be received by astronauts if they were really on their way to the Moon
Mauldin tells us that, "The permitted dose for people is about 0.5 remlyear,..." And he
also states that, "The average cosmic radiation in local space is about 10 rem/year.. ." 17 This
is exactly twenty times higher than we normally receive from our environment. I must
assume from all the recent reports that even this low a dosage may lead to a cancerous
future.
Collins reported, "As a bonus, Orbiter confirmed that radiation levels near the moon
were low . . ." 18 Again, I wonder! How could the radiation levels near the Moon be any
different than the rest of near space In fact, since all the Moon trips were allegedly made
during the New Moon, the radiation levels should have been higher, since the Moon is closer
to the Sun during that period.
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene