HOW did we get to the MOON if we didn't know about this??

Oh, I see your problem.

An unwillingness to do hard numbers.

So WHAT WAS THE LEVEL of radiation?

Why are hoaxies always so afraid of actual numbers?

A few years ago, NASA made headlines with their announcement that they planned to publish a book proving that they landed men on the moon with Apollo. This made the media rounds, talking heads discussed it; it was well publicized. Then a funny thing happened. A few months later, to NO fanfair and barely any press, NASA quietly canceled its plans to publish said book. As a matter of fact, try to find the announcement of NASA canceling the book on Google.

Someone earlier in the thread speculated that NASA canceled its book plans because "moon hoax people wouldn't believe it anyway". There are 2 things wrong with this speculation. First, in writing a book like this, the objective wouldn't be to convince the "moon hoax" people. It would be to convince the undecidededs. Second, if someone chose not to write a book because their opponents wouldn't agree with it, NOTHING would ever be written.

Regarding allegedly taking an entire vehicle to the moon with them on Apollo 15, 16, and 17, it's interesting that one of the many criticisms of the Apollo missions is that the protection needed for humans to safely transit the Apollo capsule through the Van Allen radiation belts (during heightened solar storm activity to boot in 1969-70) would require a thick lead lining around the capsule. NASA opted not to utilize this thick, protective layer of lead because it would surpass the weight restrictions for Apollo and it's Saturn V rocket. (Interesting note: NASA concerned about being able to lift off with the proper weight, but not about the Apollo astronauts' lives passing through the Van Allen radiation belts. Is this because Apollo lifted off never went through the Van Allen radiation belts, but merely orbited the earth in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for 8 days, as we, and every single other nation, have done exclusively since Apollo?). What's interesting, then, about taking an entire vehicle (the lunar rover) on board the Apollo capsule is: Wouldn't that extra weight be better served as lead protection from deadly radiation from the Van Allen radiation belts?

Another dirty little secret is that, although the prowess of Dr. Werner von Braun was much ballyhooed about regarding his acquisition by America via Operation Paperclip, the Soviets procured the best of the German rocket scientists. Remember, the Russians reached Berlin first. And the Russian space program was head and shoulders above America's...until we suddenly leap-frogged past them, landed men on the moon successfully 6 times, and they never put a moon on the moon? Russians, besides procuring brilliant German rocket scientists after WWII, have had a tradition of brilliance in science. Further, when the U.S. developed the first atomic weapons, did the Russians stop trying? No. Through espionage, and the huge pool of capable Russian scientists, the Soviets were able, in just a few years, to also develop nuclear weapons. The Manhattan Project was the most top secret program in American history. Within just a few years, the Soviets achieved nuclear parity with America. Yet, Russia never went to the moon? Hmmmm...doesn't make sense; unless you realize that America had one thing the Russians never possessed: Hollywood. Our ace in the hole. As I've said before, although there are "scientific" reasons to doubt that we landed men on the moon with Apollo, the thrust of the doubt comes from logical considerations. And that, sadly, is what the robotic, borg-like thinking of Halcyon Dayz fails (is incapable?) to comprehend.

The Apollo astronauts did not go from 253F to -243F while they were on the Moon. They were on the surface for only a couple of days. The Sun angle was between 10 and 15 degrees above the horizon. The max temperature for that angle is around 90F, easily handled by the suits.

Me,a Mathematician,no.

Understands Radiation damages Film,yes.

Understands Space within the Solar System is loaded with Ionizing Radiation.

Understands the Moon is a Large Secondary Gamma Source on Earth,second(as a constant)to the Sun.

[link to science.hq.nasa.gov]

'Today, these gamma-ray bursts, which happen at least once a day, are seen to last for fractions of a second to minutes, popping off like cosmic flashbulbs from unexpected directions, flickering, and then fading after briefly dominating the gamma-ray sky' [link to science.hq.nasa.gov]

' The Crab nebula, shown also in the visible light image, was created by a supernova that brightened the night sky in 1054 A.D. In 1967, astronomers detected the remnant core of that star; a rapidly rotating, magnetic pulsar flashing every 0.33 second in radio waves.

Perhaps the most spectacular discovery in gamma-ray astronomy came in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Detectors on board the Vela satellite series, originally military satellites, began to record bursts of gamma-rays -- not from Earth, but from deep space'

'If you could see gamma-rays, the night sky would look strange and unfamiliar.

The gamma-ray moon just looks like a round blob - lunar features are not visible. In high-energy gamma rays, the Moon is actually brighter than the quiet Sun. This image was taken by EGRET' [link to science.hq.nasa.gov] .

Ffs.