Comments by "TheFlat EarthTruth" (@TheWokeFlatEarthTruth) on "Primal Space" channel.

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  5. ​ @mrvivek815  Thank you for your reply. Not even slightly. It is not simply a matter of "deciding" to go or not to go. A large number of conditions and variables had to perfectly align for this to be possible. The Apollo Program, landing men on the Moon and successfully returning them to Earth has few, if any, equals in terms of human exploration. The sheer level of manpower, resources and finance needed for this endeavour as well as political will and imperative mark this out as a unique event without comparison. The Apollo Program required over 400,000 people in the US to be involved. These included some of the top engineers, chemists, Physicists and other subject experts that were available. In addition there was the involvement of some 50,000 individuals oversees in such tasks as the various tracking stations of the MSFN (Manned Space Flight Network) right across the Globe. The MSFN used a network of giant satellite dishes and radio antenna such as Goldstone (70m), Parkes, Australia (64m), Honeysuckle Creek, Australia (24m) and Madrid, Spain (34m). The Saturn V Rocket was manufactured by multinational companies such as Boeing, Douglas and North American Aviation. The Landing Module by Grumman and computers by IBM. Dozens of other firms were involved. NASA budget was 4.41% of the Federal Budget in 1966 compared to 0.48% in 2020. The Apollo Program lasted over a decade and built upon the work done in the Mercury and Gemini Programs. During the Apollo era NASA had basically just one aim, to fulfil Kennedys promise of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth". The geo-political situation of the 1960's and the Cold War also gave huge impetus to the project. Although all 6 Moon Landings occurred in the presidency of Richard Nixon they were very much in the public mind associated with JFK. Nixon was not particularly keen in continuing the Apollo Missions. By 1972 the Apollo Program had fulfilled all of its objectives and more. The space exploration agenda moved on to satellites, Skylab, Voyager Probes and the Space Shuttle. Thankfully after over five decades the scientific, financial and political conditions have aligned once again and the Atriums Program looks set to return humans to the Moon. Take care.
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  15. Hi ozelot, hope that you are well. I have found that it is pretty much guaranteed that anyone who mentions the Van Allen Belts as an insurmountable obstacle to space travel really knows next to nothing about radiation or these belts. The Van Allen Belts are called after James Van Allen, who is credited with their discovery. While travel through this region of space requires careful planning, it is not the insurmountable obstacle that many reality deniers, in their ignorance, imagine it to be. The Van Allen Belts is a region of charged particles originating mainly from the solar wind that are contained by the Earth's magnetic field. The capsule walls and equipment shielded the astronauts from the vast majority of the particle radiation. The radiation dosage received by an astronaut while passing through the Van Allen Belts will depend on factors such as speed, shielding, trajectory, time spend in the region etc. The aim of the Apollo missions was to minimise the time spent in this region of space and thus reduce the exposure to a minimum. Here is quote from James Van Allen himself in 2004. "the outbound and inbound trajectories of the Apollo spacecraft cut through the outer portions of the inner belt and because of their high speed spent only about 15 minutes in traversing the region and less than 2 hours in traversing the much less penetrating radiation in the outer radiation belt. The resulting radiation exposure for the round trip was less than 1% of a fatal dosage – a very minor risk among the far greater other risks of such flights". Take care.
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