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Did you know that Van Allen himself said it was possible? I'm sure you're more qualified to discuss the radiation in the Van Allen Belts (That's right genius, it's plural.) than the man that discovered them and they are named after but that's just the nature of you Internet detectives. Don't let the facts get in your way.
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The spacecraft moved through the belts in about four hours, and the astronauts were protected from the ionizing radiation by the aluminium hulls of the spacecraft. Furthermore, the orbital transfer trajectory from Earth to the Moon through the belts was chosen to lessen 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.[70] Plait cited an average dose of less than 1 rem (10 mSv), which is equivalent to the ambient radiation received by living at sea level for three years.[71] The spacecraft passed through the intense inner belt and the low-energy outer belt. The total radiation received on the trip was about the same as allowed for workers in the nuclear energy field for a year.[72]
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Do you think retroreflectors are some sort of natural phenomenon on the moon and not placed there by the Apollo missions?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_L...ing_experiment
NASA has since taken pictures of the equipment that was left on the moon by the six Apollo landings.. They were recently released.
We landed on the moon, period.