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Brief periods of time? If you end the Van Allen belts at 10,000 miles they spent nearly 12 hours of the flight in total 'briefly' flying through them.
But that's just according to NASA's Apollo 11 Flight Journal that gives time and distance logs.
Quoting: Drone#6 Hmm, you're going to need to double check your numbers there. They crossed 10,000 miles (~22,460 km from earth's center) by about 17:17 UT on July 16 according to JPL's data. That's less than an hour after TLI. This page agrees:
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Likewise, this image shows the trajectory in 2d overlaid on a diagram of the belts, with red markers at 10 minute increments:
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No need to double check, the numbers are from NASA's own logs:
Outward
2:44 in [
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8:30 in [
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5.75hrs, 3.8 orbits
Inward
189:28 [
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194:53 [
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5.5 hours, unknown orbits.
Total in + out time = 5.75 + 5.5 = 11.25 hours.
Sorry, nothing in your links indicates that my trajectory info is wrong. In fact your first link precedes the point in time I mentioned, 17:17 UT on the 16th = 003:45:00 ground elapsed time in the mission. They didn't do a direct ascent to TLI, TLI came hours after the launch. Now, let's look at the next page:
"003:53:27 McCandless: Roger, we copy.
Long comm break.
That was Neil Armstrong with that report.
It is at about this point that a crewman, probably Neil given that he has just mentioned the view, takes two photographs of Earth half obscured by the structure of the Lunar Module.
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The second of these images shows enough of Earth's globe that a measurement can be taken to determine the distance to Earth at that moment.
The calculation yields a value of about 18,700 km or 10,100 nautical miles."
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Whoops! What's that? I was right! And the website YOU referenced PROVES it. A short while later on in the transcript, the Public Affairs Officer reads off the current mission altitude confirming me right again:
"This is Apollo Control at 4 hours, 4 minutes. Apollo 11's velocity now is 17,014 feet per second [5,186 m/s]. Its distance from Earth, 11,753 nautical miles [21,767 km]."
Now you can admit I was right about the trajectory.
