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396A Posssibility of Asteroid Hitting Earth (1)
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68. Two questions, one answer

(a) Was Moon landing a hoax?

Someone I know maintains that we never actually landed on the moon. It was all a Hollywood production. This person claims that if you look at it from a physics perspective things do not add up. I really haven't paid much attention to this but it came up again today with this person. I was wondering if anyone had heard of this before and what the arguments are for both sides of the picture. I really do not want to get into a large debate over this and these days my time is really limited. I would appreciate any information on this issue.

(b) Was Moon landing a hoax?

I came across a website that is marketing a video that supposedly proves that the US never landed on the moon. It claims that the Apollo 11 & 12 missions were staged for political reasons. In an effort to prove his point, the director makes these statements about the "dangers" of the Van Allen Radiation Belts. I was wondering if you would give your opinion as to the accuracy of the director's statements:

"The only time in history that an astronaut, Soviet or American, is said to have left the relative safety of Earth orbit and ventured through the Van Allen Radiation Belts, a twenty-five thousand mile thick band of intense radiation which surrounds the Earth beginning at an altitude of about one thousand miles, is going to the moon. The Soviets, with a five-to-one advantage in the early part of the space race, never once sent a human through the radiation belts to even orbit the moon.

In 1998, the Space Shuttle flew to one of its highest altitudes ever, three hundred fifty miles, hundreds of miles below merely the beginning of the Van Allen Radiation Belts. Inside of their shielding, superior to that which the Apollo astronauts possessed, the shuttle astronauts reported being able to "see" the radiation with their eyes closed penetrating their shielding as well as the retinas of their closed eyes. For a dental x-ray on Earth which lasts 1/100th of a second we wear a 1/4 inch lead vest. Imagine what it would be like to endure an hour and a half of radiation that you can see with your eyes closed from hundreds of miles away with 1/8 of an inch of aluminum shielding!"

If you wish to see the website, it's http://www.moonmovie.com.

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