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Will The Van Allen Radiation Belt Prohibit Space Travel?

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Will The Van Allen Radiation Belt Prohibit Space Travel? For near-Earth missions, the Van Allen belts are not a hazard to spacefarers. It was, however, a hazard for the Apollo missions. The Van Allen belts are not a physical barrier to spacecraft, and so, in principle, we could have sent the Apollo spacecraft through the

Can Neutrons Kill You?

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Can Neutrons Kill You? Can neutrons kill you? The pulse of neutron radiation would cause immediate and permanent incapacitation to unprotected outdoor humans in the open out to 900 meters, with death occurring in one or two days. What would a neutron bomb do? neutron bomb, also called enhanced radiation warhead, specialized type of nuclear