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Mass Murder or Utter Stupidity / Chap. 6 p. 40
In 1963 the Soviet space scientists told the famous British astronomer Bernard Lovell
that they "could see no immediate way of protecting cosmonauts from the lethal effects of
solar radiation." 4 This had to mean that not even the much thicker metal walls used on the
Russian capsules could stop this radiation. How could the very thin foil-like metal we used
on our capsules stop the radiation NASA knew better. Space monkeys died in less than 10
days, but NASA never revealed their cause of death.
Most people, even those interested in space, are still unaware that killer radiation pulses
through space. I believe our ignorance was caused by the people who sell us space sagas. I
have a 9 by 12 inch coffee table book titled The Illustrated Encyclopedia of SPACE TECH-
NOLOGY printed in 1981. The words "space radiation" just do not exist on any of its almost
300 pages. In fact, with the exceptions of Mauldin's PROSPECTS FOR INTERSTELLAR
TRAVEL published in 1992 and ASTRONAUTICAL ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE
written by early NASA experts, no other book I have read even begins to discuss this
extremely serious impediment to space flights. Do I detect the fine hand of my so-called
government at work
The Russians were in a position to know about killer radiation because as early as the
spring of '61, their probes had been sent to the backside of the Moon. Upon his return to
England, Lovell sent this information to NASA's Deputy Administrator, Hugh Dryden.
Dryden, representing NASA, obviously ignored it!
Collins mentioned space radiation in only two places in his book. He said, "At least the
moon was well past the earth's Van Allen belts, which promised a healthy dose of radiation
to those who passed and a lethal dose to those who stayed." 5
In speaking of ways to dodge problems he wrote, "In similar fashion, the Van Allen
Radiation belts around the earth and the possibility of solar flares require understanding and
planning to avoid exposing the crew to an excessive dose of radioactivity." 6
So what does "understanding and planning" mean Does it mean that after the Van Allen
belts are passed, the rest of space is free of radiation Or did NASA have a secret strategy
for dodging solar flares once they were committed to the trip
It seems to imply that in 1969 it was possible to predict solar flares. My astronomy text
has this to say on that subject: "It is accordingly possible to predict only approximately the
date of the future maximum and how plentiful the groups will then become." 7 This text was
10 years old by 1969. Later in this book I will show that nothing had changed during the
years of Apollo Moon missions.
To continue with the Apollo Program after receiving this information implies that NASA
knew something the Soviets didn't. Either we had developed an effective extremely lightweight
radiation shield or NASA already knew that no one was going anywhere near the
Moon.
Could the cloth i n our space suits stop radiation I doubt it because more than 15 years
have passed since the partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island. Workers still can't enter
the containment dome. We don't yet have the technology to create lightweight flexible
radiation shielding. High velocity could get the capsule through the Van Allen belt quickly,
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene