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- Season 1 Why Does a Rocket Need to Roll Going Into Orbit?
- Season 1 Only Three People Have Died in Space
- Season 1 Eleven Deaf Men Helped NASA Leave Earth
- Season 1 Let's Talk About Space Force
- Season 1 How Apollo Astronauts Didn't Get Lost Going to the Moon
- Season 1 U-2s over China: Operation Tackle
- Season 1 America Spying with the Corona Satellites
- Season 1 When a Nuke Nearly Killed the Moon Landing
The Vintage Space - Season 1 Episode 8 When a Nuke Nearly Killed the Moon Landing
0.00 48 minutes To travel to the moon Apollo astronauts had to pass through the Van Allen radiation belts. NASA scientists eventually concluded that radiation exposure would be minimal with the shielding on the command module. Still, a proposal to purge the radiation with a nuclear explosion was considered. But the 1964 Starfish Prime atmospheric nuclear test actually enriched the radiation in the Van Allen belts.
