the apollo flight paths specifically avoided the strongest part of the inner (strongest) van allen belt and because of the physics of spaceflight, they were traveling the fastest as they were just escaping earth's gravity well so they avoided the worst and sped through the bad and even then the overall dose was incredibly small, pic related readings were the average of various dosimeters that they carried on the apollo spacecraft with the astronauts   /19730010172/downloads/19730010172. pdf russia also sent a vessel with a "fly-by" of the moon, the zond-5, with tortoises, insects, plants, seeds, and so on.   5 also   fkcb_duq
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