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cost four days of effort, but I was able to rebuild them. We scanned for viruses without
success, but it seems strange that out of 40 megabytes on my disk only the 800,000 bytes
concerning this book were scrambled. I will always suspect that they were singled out
intentionally. DOS only writes once when you install it. After 16 months of backing and
forthing over the X-ray data I am beginning to get the feeling that the government is a more
clever devil than I am.
I found a technical book entitled Astronautical Engineering and Science published by
McGraw-Hill in 1963. It was a tribute to Wernher von Braun and written in sections by
many of the original NASA experts. This book is divided into four subject areas and each
area is then subdivided into various topics.
The one of interest here is entitled "Problems in Radiation Shielding of Space Vehicles"
co-authored by Keller, Shelton, Burrell and Downey, four NASA experts. On page 244 they
describe the problem, "Space explorers will be concerned with great radiation belts upon
leaving the Earth, with the background of cosmic radiation that pervades all space, with the
violent particle radiation storms associated with solar activity, and with the radiation belts
around planets to be visited."
On page 253, a chart lists the shielding effects from various materials. I was surprised to
see that water is one of the more effective shields. The chart shows the various amounts of
material necessary to stop the primary protons at their different energy levels. Their chart
shows that stopping a 10 MEV (million electron volts) particle requires 10 cm of water, for a
25 MEV particle you need 25 cm of water, and a 50 MEV event seems to call for 90 cm. The
first two are not very energetic particles because the Sun emits particles of several BEV
(billion electron volts). By contrast, a working atomic reactor emits particles in the 18
MEV range.
On page 256 of Astronautical Engineering and Science, there is a chart that shows the
dosage of four different flares. On August 22, 1958 there was a low energy flare that could
have been reduced to 25 rem per hour with 2 cm of water shielding. On May 10, 1960 there
was high flux, low energy flare that would have needed over 36 cm of water to reduce it to
25 rem per hour. There was an intermediate energy flare on November 12, 1960 and it would
have required 18 cm of shielding to reduce it to the 25 rem per hour. A high energy event
happened on February 23, 1956 which would have required over 35 cm (12-inches) of
shielding water to bring it down to 25 rem per hour.
When the Apollo capsule's internal pressure rose to 29 psi (14 psi over atmospheric)
during the Grissom-Chaffee-White fire, it ruptured. The walls were too thin to withstand the
14.7 psi required to hold a normal atmosphere and therefore, couldn't have been much
thicker than the LEM's hull walls. In fact, even if the command capsules walls were .01
inches thick they would have been 10 times the thickness of the LEM's and still, they would
be 50 times thinner than the one centimeter hull used in the above charts.
Even if the flares, which took place during the Apollo 14 & 16 missions, were only of
intermediate intensity, the astro-nots should have been doused with 70,000 rem. The actual
hull was only a little over one thousandth of an inch thick. So what stopped the radiation
The suit material
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene