I watched a TV programme about the 'alleged' Moon landing recently. One of the arguments was that the astronauts would have died from radiation as they had to pass through the Van Allen belt. Is there any truth in this?

Gnomon

The Van Allen Belt protects us on Earth from deadly cancer-causing radiation. Once outside the Van Allen Belt, the astronauts would be unprotected. Except that they were travelling in a metal spaceship, which is pretty effective at stopping cosmic rays. The glass on the windows of the spaceship was all gold-plated with a very thin coating of gold, transparent but enough to stop the cosmic rays, as were the visors on their space suits. Even so, the Apollo astronauts reported strange flashing lights which were later identified as cosmic rays passing through all this metal and their heads and scoring direct strikes on their retinas. You wouldn't want to be exposed to all that cosmic radiation for long, but the few days that the astronauts took to go to the moon would not be a problem. Aug 17 02, 10:52 PM

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