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Old May 7th, 2008 #2
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You never hear about it the kwa anymore but when I was a child many scientists stated that it was impossible to get to the moon with a living entity aboard a space capsule because of the Van Allen radiation belt surrounding the Earth which acts as a shield to prevent all but the most radiation resistant lifeforms to enter our bubble in space. At the time they also stated that there was no feasable way to build a space craft to shield the occupants from the radiation because it was able to penetrate through any kind of shielding and radiate the inside of the capsule more or less like putting the animals or people inside in to a microwave and hitting the start button. The space station is in between the Van Allen belt and Earth thus preventing it from being nuked is why it can stay up there.