Van Allen Radiation Belt

The idea that the entire human landing program was faked. Various sources argue that the technology to send men to the Moon was insufficient and/or that the Van Allen radiation belts made such a trip impossible

500 miles above the earth these bands of intensive radiations surround
our planet in thousand of miles thick.

Bill Kaysing (Moon Hoax Investigator):
"Any human being traveling through the Van Allen Belt would have been a
rendered either extremely ill or actually killed by the radiation within a short time thereafter"

Effects of Radiation

Other than the Apollo Missions, no other man attempts to pass through this deadly radiations

Bart Sibrel (investigative Journalist):
"every man mission in the history, sky lab special has been below the radiation belt, all except going to the moon."

To protect the Astronauts the capsule would have needed 6 feet of ledge shielding according to physicist Ralph Rene

 
Radiations around our planet

Ralph Rene (Scientist):
"Obviously the only shield they have what was the literally paper thin outer hold of aluminum and those suits consisting of glass fiber some aluminum fiber and silicon rubber"

Space suit with different fibers and materials

Bill Kaysing (Moon Hoax Investigator):
"Its very interesting concerning radiation that the astronauts were protected by a thin film of aluminum when here on earth they put a ledge shield on us when they take a dental x-ray "

Some theorizes that the Van Allen belts didn't killed the astronauts even deadly redoes of radiations deeper in space would have. Violent explosion of the sun called magnetic storms floods space with intense radio activity.

Violent explosion of Sun

Dr. Geoffrey Reeves (Space Physicist):
"The magnetic storm would come along and that can increase the intensity of the radiation belts by maybe a thousand times above what it was before"
 

According to Rene Apollo 16 mission coincided with one of the sun's most intense storm ever recorded

Strom on Solar Surface

Ralph Rene (Scientist):
"The round the rotating sun came the immense flame the biggest one of the 20th century and it went on for 3 or 4 days all the while slowly rotating around"

Although the effects of radiations are horrific ranging from hair loss to cancer to death the solar flairs had no adverse effect on Apollo 16 crew.

 
Effects of radiation on people

 
Return of Apollo Crew without any effects of Radiation

Challenges and responses

1. The astronauts could not have survived the trip because of exposure to radiation from the Van Allen radiation belt and galactic ambient radiation (see Radiation poisoning). Some hoax theorists have suggested that Starfish Prime (high altitude nuclear testing in 1962) was a failed attempt to disrupt the Van Allen belts.

• The Moon is ten times higher than the Van Allen radiation belts. The spacecraft moved through the belts in just 30 minutes, and the astronauts were protected from the ionizing radiation by the metal hulls of the spacecraft. In addition, the orbital transfer trajectory from the Earth to the Moon through the belts was selected to minimize radiation exposure. Even Dr. James Van Allen, the discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts, rebutted the claims that radiation levels were too dangerous for the Apollo missions. Dosimeters carried by the crews showed they received about the same cumulative dosage as a chest X-ray or about 1 milligray. Plait cited an average dose of less than 1 rem, which is equivalent to the ambient radiation received by living at sea level for three years.

• The radiation is actually evidence that the astronauts went to the Moon. Thirty-three of the thirty-six Apollo astronauts involved in the nine Apollo missions to leave Earth orbit have early stage cataracts that have been shown to be caused by radiation exposure to cosmic rays during their trip.

2. Film in the cameras would have been fogged by this radiation.

• The film was kept in metal containers that prevented radiation from fogging the film's emulsion. In addition, film carried by unmanned lunar probes such as the Lunar Orbiter and Luna 3 (which used on-board film development processes) was not fogged.

3. The Moon's surface during the daytime is so hot that camera film would have melted.

• There is no atmosphere to efficiently couple lunar surface heat to devices such as cameras not in direct contact with it. In a vacuum, only radiation remains as a heat transfer mechanism. The physics of radiative heat transfer are thoroughly understood, and the proper use of passive optical coatings and paints was adequate to control the temperature of the film within the cameras; lunar module temperatures were controlled with similar coatings that gave it its gold color. Also, while the Moon's surface does get very hot at lunar noon, every Apollo landing was made shortly after lunar sunrise at the landing site. During the longer stays, the astronauts did notice increased cooling loads on their spacesuits as the sun continued to rise and the surface temperature increased, but the effect was easily countered by the passive and active cooling systems.

4. The Apollo 16 crew should not have survived a big solar flare firing out when they were on their way to the Moon. "They should have been fried."

• No large solar flare occurred during the flight of Apollo 16. There were large solar flares in August 1972, after Apollo 16 returned to Earth and before the flight of Apollo 17.

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