From: monte.davis@verizon.net   
      
   stiki101@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Can anyone tell me how dangerous the radiation at the Van Allen Belts   
   >really is??!?   
      
   Not terribly dangerous for the 21 Apollo astronauts who passed through   
   them twice at ~25,000 mph (on trajectories that skimmed the edges of   
   the most intense inner belt). Very dangerous if you spend more than a   
   few hours within the belts and don't have many inches of shielding.   
      
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