You may have heard that astronauts couldn't possibly have gone to the Moon because it's impossible to travel through the Van Allen radiation belts. In this video, we'll explain why that's not true. It turns out, the Apollo astronauts who flew toward the Moon all flew through the Van Allen belts with no problems at all.
Lots of people believe things about space, astronomy, and space travel that simply aren't true. Some are fairly minor, like believing a dog was the very first animal in space; but others are a bit of a bigger deal, like denying one of the largest human accomplishments to date. In this series, we're going to tackle as many of these myths as we can. We're going to cover the space basics. From the Cosmosphere, this is "Spasics."
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