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Originally Posted by Juilan
Several Cosmonauts did talk about it years ago, claiming that in there pre-lunar-missions a dozen comrades burned up in the Van Allen Belts, but during the time not a lot of US people we're reading Pravda so we didn't hear about it.
Having said that, it was probably Russian propaganda in the first place intended to frustrate the US and put doubt in the minds of millions abroad.
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I believe, although I don't have it right in front of me now, but I believe Van Allen himself later went on to say that people would be able to travel rabidly through the belt.