Van Allen radiation belts

 In 2010 President Obama was even so bold as to pose the question, “How do we shield astronauts from radiation on longer missions?” Am I the only journalist curious enough to ask and repeat ad infinitum, “Why not do it the same way that worked so well the first time they went to the Moon way back in 1969?” Why does no other journalist connect the obvious dots with this very revealing information? Because the dots lead to a horrific truth that would appall the entire American nation, who would then demand that their entire government be reconstituted or replaced. It is simply because mainstream journalists are part of the CIA’s media empire that they do not report anything like this that would cause their own downfall.

In December of 2014, NASA sent its new Orion spacecraft, un-manned, directly into the Van Allen radiation belts and then promptly returned it to Earth for study. According to NASA, the purpose of the Orion mission was “to test the instruments.” What “instruments” were onboard the Orion spacecraft? Two Geiger counters to measure the radiation inside of the belts, which have to be passed through to reach the Moon. Didn’t NASA already have these measurements fifty years ago from the Apollo missions, if indeed astronauts actually went through the radiation belts to the Moon and back? Why is it so important to “test the instruments” inside of the radiation belts? To see if humans can survive traversing it for the very first time!

Apparently today’s new generation of NASA engineers, some in their twenties, have stumbled upon these significant NASA contradictions. Though they were probably led into the space exploration field by the motivation of the seemingly easy, successful Moon mission of 1969, the fact that such an acclaimed feat has not been repeated to date, and that aside from the alleged missions of the Nixon administration, no astronaut from any nation has ever left low-Earth orbit, these startling realizations must make their NASA jobs quite precarious.

Kelly Smith, one of these twenty-ish engineers, was selected as the official Orion radiation mission spokesperson in the NASA video press release showcased below. Notice that at two minutes forty-five seconds into the film (2:45) Smith confirms that the radiation belts are made up of “Dangerous Radiation”. At time 3:35 Smith plainly states, “We MUST solve these (radiation) challenges BEFORE we send people through this region of space.”

The question is, and I have to ask it again, if the solution to the dangerous radiation belts problem has not yet been solved (“We must solve these challenges before we send people through this region of space”) then how is it that the Apollo crews, during their alleged Moon missions, successfully went through this “dangerous” radiation, when a NASA employee just admitted that the necessary equipment to survive doing so has yet to be invented? Please see Sibrel.com Moon Man link #10. Did Kelly Smith reveal this obvious contradiction accidentally or intentionally?

When I asked NASA’s press office if I could interview Kelly Smith about this radiation matter, they refused to grant me permission to talk with him. When I emailed NASA a list of mostly harmless questions about the Orion mission, the agency quickly answered all of them. When I submitted a more difficult inquiry concerning Kelly Smith’s three statements about the “dangerous” radiation of the Van Allen belts and how the radiation problem “must be solved before NASA can send astronauts through this region of space”, NASA refused to reply to these questions, as if I had never asked them.

When I asked NASA for the radiation readings of the Orion spacecraft’s two onboard Geiger counters, they said that such measurements were “a government secret”. When I asked them why such ordinary information about nature is a secret, NASA refused to answer this question and then terminated all further communication with me.

When NASA sent citizen-funded probes and spacecraft to measure the temperature of the Sun and the amount of hydrogen in Jupiter’s atmosphere, this information was readily available to scientists and the public alike, after all, why would a measurement of a part of nature be a “government secret?” Likewise, as the amount radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts which surround the Earth is simply a part of nature, there should be no reason whatsoever why such elementary measurements of nature are a “government secret”… unless… disclosing such measurements would reveal the impossibility of the Apollo missions.

James Van Allen, the discoverer of the radiation belts, originally said that they were,“One hundred times more radioactive than a lethal dose” and “One thousand times more lethal than expected.”

[emphasis added] Under pressure from NASA, he dramatically recanted his original findings in order to make it appear as if the Apollo missions were technically possible. The link below shows Van Allen’s original published findings in the respected national journal Scientific American, in which he plainly spoke about the radiation belts beyond Earth orbit being “an obstacle for practical space travel to the moon and beyond”, just as Kelly Smith of the Orion mission reiterated. Van Allen himself said this in 1958, immediately after NASA sent probes with Geiger counters into the radiation belts:

Our measurements show that the maximum radiation level as of 1958 is equivalent to between ten and one hundred roentgens per hour, depending on the still undetermined proportion of protons to electrons. Since a human being exposed for two days to even ten roentgens would have only an even chance of survival, the radiation belts obviously present an obstacle to space flight.18 The above comments are at the very end of the article linked here. To read this important article see Sibrel.com Moon Man link #9B.

Occupational safety limits for radiation here on Earth is 5 REM over an entire year, and the danger level is estimated relative both to the amount of REM and the period over which it is received, and thereby gradually absorbed, so that the body may have time to incrementally expel the radiation before it reaches a lethal level.

The Apollo spacecraft only had so-called radiation shielding that consisted of paper-thin aluminum, while a medical x-ray technician wears a much more effective lead vest (lead being prohibitive to launch into space due to its excessive weight) even though by comparison, the radiation exposure to an x-ray is only one-five-thousandth of the radiation exposure from the Van Allen radiation belts, and an x-ray is only for a fraction of a second, while the radiation belts exposure would be continually for some two hours during the journey to the Moon and another two hours on the return journey. Some misinformed NASA Moon landing fans who were grasping at straws, have falsely claimed that the supposed Apollo trajectory to the Moon did not take it through the radiation belts at all, while others claim that the purported Apollo trajectory only took it through the outer parts of the radiation belts. The fact is, NASA itself has claimed for decades that the Apollo astronauts went right through the middle of the radiation belts (as shown in the agency’s own press releases of the alleged trajectory), as there is no way to zigzag around them, because launching the rocket closest to the equator as possible (southern Florida) – where the radiation belts are strongest – uses the least amount of fuel to achieve orbit.

What these diehard fans of the Moon landings have inadvertently done is admit that yes indeed the radiation belts are deadly, just as Van Allen and NASA’s own Kelly Smith acknowledged in the Orion radiation mission video press release. When these misled NASA disciples desperately claim that the Apollo crews went “around” the deadly radiation belts, in a forlorn attempt to prove that the Apollo missions were real, they are actually acknowledging the lethality of the radiation belts, while at the same time unknowingly conceding that the missions to the Moon were scientifically impossible, since NASA’s own Kelly Smith now openly admits that the technology necessary to successfully travel through the deadly radiation belts has yet to be invented.

Remember self-proclaimed Moon astronaut Alan Bean? How he was so unprepared for my challenging questions that he accidentally admitted on camera that he did not travel through the radiation belts, and when I pointed out this error in his story, Bean corrected himself by saying, “Maybe we did [go through the radiation belts].”

In another twenty-first century NASA video, a Space Station astronaut also admits that low-Earth orbit still remains the technological limitation of NASA’s manned spacecraft (because of the radiation issue). He even accidentally says that NASA hopes to “eventually” send astronauts to the Moon. To see this admission see Sibrel.com Moon Man link #11.

from: Moon Man The True Story of a Filmmaker on the CIA Hit List Sibrel