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Mass Murder or Utter Stupidity / Chap. 6 p. 39
tion. 'Pretty slim' was the way he put his Apollo's chances of meeting its mission requirements."
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According to Mike Gray, "Grissom had a sense of unease about this flight. He told his
wife, Betty, 'If there ever is a serious accident in the space program, it's likely to be me.'" 2
We will never know if this statement was the result of a psychic premonition or a burgeoning
fear of our government.
Early in January '67, Grissom, probably unaware that NASA had other internal critics,
hung a lemon on the Apollo capsule. Then he threatened to go public with his complaints
about the LEM. 3 Grissom was already a popular celebrity, especially with the press. He
would have had no problem getting his story out. In a case like this, even NASA's censors
would have had little control over the news. Headlines like "Popular Astronaut Rips Into
NASA!" couldn't easily be squelched.
Space Radiation
NASA also had another serious problem besides being in a space race with the Russian
Bear. This problem derived from our first answer to the Sputniks. On January 31, 1958,
Explorer 1 lifted into orbit. It weighed a mere 18.3 pounds and carried a geiger counter
which dutifully reported that a belt of intense radiation surrounded the Earth.
The belt subsequently was named after the Explorer project head, James A. Van Allen.
The radiation was first predicted by Nikola Tesla around the beginning of the 20th century as
the result of experimental and theoretical work he had done on electricity in space in general
and the electrical charge of the Sun in particular. He then tried to tell our academic natural
philosophers (scientists) that the Sun had a fantastic electrical charge and that it must
generate a solar wind. His efforts came to naught! Those experts "knew" he was crazy. It
would take almost sixty years for future experts to prove him right.
However, predicting something is not the same as discovery. The discovery of our
magnetic girdle of radiation rightfully belongs to the man who was suspicious enough to put
a geiger counter on board the satellite (whichever technician actually thought of it).
Subsequent study showed that these belts, begins in near space about 500 miles out and
extend out to over 15,000 miles. Since the radiation is more or less steady, it obviously must
receive as much radiation from space as it loses. If not it would either increase until it fried
the Earth or decay away to nothing. Van Allen belt radiation is dependent upon the solar
wind and is said to focus or concentrate that radiation. However, since it can only trap what
has traveled to it in a straight line from the Sun, there remains a very dangerous question:
how much more radiation can there be in the rest of solar space
The Moon does not have a Van Allen belt. Neither does it have a protective atmosphere.
It lies nakedly exposed to the full blast of the solar wind. Were there a large solar flare
during any one of the Moon missions, massive amounts of radiation would scour both the
capsules and the Moon's surface where our astronauts gamboled away the day. The radiation
is worse than dangerous — it's lethal!
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene