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From your blog:
The Spacecast 2020 Technical Report puts the space weather radiation hazard to human life in perspective:
"...at geostationary orbit, with only 0.1 gm/cm2 of aluminum shielding thickness, the predicted radiation dose (REM) for one year continuous exposure, with minimum-moderate solar activity, is estimated to be about 3,000,000..."
From the linked source in the above quote:
at geostationary orbit, with only 0.1 gm/cm2 of aluminum shielding thickness, the predicted radiation dose (REM) for one year continuous exposure, with minimum-moderate solar activity, is estimated to be about 3,000,000; using 5.0 gm/cm2 of aluminum shielding, the REM for one year continuous exposure would be reduced to about 550.
(Bolding mine. Remember that this is for an
annual dose, from a site within the Van Allen Belts that the Apollo missions
specifically avoided. Also, the Apollo Spacecraft radiation shielding was on the order of 7-8 gm/cm2 - half-again thicker than the shielding in the bolded quote)
That's funny, Eternidad; Your quote cuts-off just before the passage that
totally guts your radiation argument. Does that strike anyone as dishonest?
Mind you, he didn't have to edit it that way. Further down the page he quotes the Wiki article on the VAB, saying
A satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminium in an elliptic orbit (200 by 20,000 miles) passing through the radiation belts will receive about 2,500 rem (25 Sv) per year. Almost all radiation will be received while passing the inner belt.
2,500 rem per year equates to less than 0.3 rem per hour. Remember that the Apollo missions
avoided the most intense areas of the inner belt, and was completely past them in less than an hour.
Thus, Eternidad's quote-mining provides solid evidence that the radiation threat was
adequately assessed and mitigated by the Apollo spacecraft design & mission plan.
