Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Moon Landing deniers love to bring up the Van Allen Radiation belts. So let's talk about the discovery of the belts, what they are, why the Apollo missions were NOT stopped by the Van Allen belts, and how human activity has effected the belts both through nuclear weapons testing and radio wave communications.

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Sources:
nasa.gov/mission_pages/rbsp/mission/fun-facts.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt
space.com/33948-van-allen-radiation-belts.html
spacecenter.org/what-are-the-van-allen-radiation-belts
space.com/36934-humans-change-space-weather.html
nasa.gov/analogs/nsrl/why-space-radiation-matters
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#/media/File:International_Space_Station_after_undocking_of_STS-132.jpg
nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasas-van-allen-probes-spot-man-made-barrier-shrouding-earth