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   Neil from Birmingham says:

   Oct 9, 14:33

   Ah the magic radiation suit story again, I don't suppose you might be able to tell my where you heard this?
   If you do a bit of reading around you will see quite how implausible the whole thing is. A lunar flight would pose some level of radiation hazard, the bulk of this is accounted for by the Van Allen radiation belts (I assume this is the point of the radiation suit story) these are areas of charged particles with very high energies (sufficent to penetrate about 1 mm of Lead) the accumulated radiation exposure of an object protected by 3mm of Aluminium would be aproximately 25 sievert over the course of a year. This sounds like a great deal the average accumulated dose on earth over the same year would be closer to 25 thousandths of a sievert, an accumulated dose of one sievert over a short period of time is sufficent to have medical consequences and a 5 sievert dose over a short period of time is fatial in more than half of all cases.
   However there are two things to remember firstly the the flight would only have to spend a few hours within the belts before radiation levels would fall substantialy (by a factor of about 1000). Secondly capsule hulls would have to be somewhat thicker than 3mm for simple engineering reasons giving somewhat improved protection as a result of the aditional material.
   Considering that the information I used reguarding radiation dosages is based upon Russian data going back before 1961 when the US commenced serious work upon the apollo program (the initial studies were made using Sputink 3 and Luna 1 in 1958 and 1960 respectively) why would ther have kept quiet about the risk?

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   jim royle from W/shawe says:

   Oct 9, 11:23

   When will you idiots ever learn, nobody has ever been to the moon! Russia asked NASA for the loan of its radiation suits, on one of theirmissions, NASA's reply, what radiation suits!!!!!

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   pete from reading says:

   Sep 10, 10:25

   how can we go back to somewhere we havent been!!!!!!????

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   arlene from edinburgh says:

   Aug 18, 12:40

   GARP WHAT IS wrong WITH EDINBURGH, HAVE YOU BEEN, TRY IT YOULL BE SURPRISED

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   julie from North East says:

   Aug 18, 11:50

   The moon is one of the few places man has not managed to trash, Leave it alone. People would be better off looking after what we have, and not looking for more places to distroy.

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