In Pictures: Top 10 Apollo hoax claims | Science
Sceptic:
If the Apollo astronauts had really travelled to the moon, they would have been cooked by a giant belt of lethal space radiation
Believer: These ‘Van Allen belts’, where the Earth’s magnetic field concentrates solar radiation, would be dangerous only if people lingered there for several days. In fact the astronauts whizzed through in a matter of hours, receiving a radiation dose no greater than a medical X-ray
Photograph: Nasa
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