Apollo's Deadly Van Allen Belts?

Were Apollo's "Deadly Van Allen Belts" really that deadly?

Sometimes you'll hear: "Astronauts can't go through the Van Allen Belts" or "The Van Allen Belts are deadly and impenetrable". Is that true? Lets dig into it. The Van Allen belts are layers of charged particles that encircle the Earth due to its magnetic field. They form protective barriers that trap these particles, shielding the planet from harmful solar radiation.

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Were Apollo's "Deadly Van Allen Belts" really that deadly?

Sometimes you'll hear: "Astronauts can't go through the Van Allen Belts" or "The Van Allen Belts are deadly and impenetrable". Is that true? Lets dig into it. The Van Allen belts are layers of charged particles that encircle the Earth due to its magnetic field. They form protective barriers that trap these particles, shielding the planet from harmful solar radiation.


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[IanM-idor]

I've read the comic. I know that if you fly through the van Allen Belts you get superpowers

[Trethan]

Always appreciate a new YTer spreading truth and knowledge

Subbed!

[lgrantnelson]

I always heard about the Van Allen belt, but didn't know exactly what it was. Thanks for the information.

[LaughingOrange]

So the solution is just to not stay in this dangerous zone. Keep moving and you're fine.

[lrwilliamsjr]

NASA made six successful missions to the moon (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17) in three years (1969-1972) with a computer guidance system having only 64 kilobytes of processing power. Today, more than 50 years later, with all of our advanced technology, advancements in computers and processing power, billions of dollars in aerospace funding and research, more brilliant scientific minds, and our ever increasing understanding of the heavens we have not and cannot go back to the moon because we dont know how to calculate the trajectory. Somehow, though, the brilliant minds of the late '60s and early '70s with their slide rulers and dinky computers plotted a safe path through the Van Allen Belt, to the moon and back, six times.

Okay, sure. Totally believable.

[darralpphillips]

Thanks for the explanation. It means alot.

[Leruchs]

I appreciate that! That's all we've been told for years.... new

[antonydandrea]

Ok for 1 off trips, but if space travel becomes a common thing in years to come, we can't be subjecting people to 1% fatal radiation every time.

[bogenc]

😂😂😂😂

Fake as Phook & nasa even admits no one can survive the radiation… therefore never happened! 🤦🏼‍♂️💯

[kingcujo]

What about the temperature of the van Allen belt, it can be between 3, 100 and 35, 000 degrees Fahrenheit....

[Bird_McBride]

It was a last minute decision. We chose to go through the hole in the belts. It was a last minute decision...like I said.😅

[LeeDowningKeat]

What about the temperature issue. Meant to be between 2000-20000 kelvin. Surely that would melt the aluminium

[HalfintheBagGolfer]

This guy above and NASA are full of 💩. What happened when shuttles riders slipped beyond 200 miles out? Their testimony states they saw sparks in their eyelids and they had to return.

[sibusisotshabalala]

When they question one of nasa astronaut who went to the moon what he thought about the Van Allen radiation belthe had no clue what they were talking about I mean absolutely no clue 😭🤦

[funstuffkeepmunchinbethank]

Cap cap cap cap
No human can go through Firmament aka Van Allen Belt
And even if than was true what would give them the speed to return 😮
I call cap cap Capping

[logicalthinker]

They lost the technology to do it again! 😂

[nickmetz]

Does anybody actually thank you what they’re talking about. The astronomical and possibilities of you been “finding “ or locating a path less harmful is so stupid to believe in humans are way too gullible. 😂

[mikehawkswollen]

The planets and moons and stars are just atoms that make up something larger.

[louievelez]

Still sounds like a desperate attempt to convince someone.