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290 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
The Russians were in a position to know 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 spoke of 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 that the rest of space is free of radiation
Or did NASA have a strategy for dodging solar flares once they were
committed to the trip
It seems to imply that back 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 ten 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 Russians didn't. Either we had
developed an effective extremely light weight radiation shield or NASA
already knew that no one was going any where near the Moon.
Could the cloth in our space suits stop the radiation I doubt that
because more than fifteen years have passed since the partial core meltdown
at TMI (Three Mile Island) and workers still can't enter the containment
dome. We don't yet have the technology to create light weight
flexible radiation shielding. High velocity could get the capsule through
the Van Allen belt but what could they do about solar flares during the rest
of the trip to the Moon And if we didn't go, why didn't the Soviets, our
arch enemies, rat us out
While I was thinking about this something rang a bell. Around the time
we were fighting communism in Vietnam (and other countries in southeast
Asia) we began to sell Russia, later to be called the Evil Empire,
wheat by the mega-ton at an ultra-cheap price.
On July 8, 1972 our government shocked the entire world by announcing
that we would sell about one-fourth of our entire crop of wheat to
Russia at a fixed price of $1.63 per bushel. According to these sources we
were about to produce another bumper crop while the Russian crop would