The true message of the moon missions that NASA revealed in Orion video on Mars

In October 2014, a video of NASA's Orion to Mars program was posted on YouTube. It is said that this video was "unintentionally" revealing the truth behind the moon flights in the 1960s and 1970s. What is the truth and is it true?

Please read the following article after the translation from American newspaper Huffingtonpost.

According to HuffingtonPost, the video 'Orion: Trial By Fire' (attracting more than 1.1 million views) is really interesting. It is a brief introduction to Orion test flight, how it can help humans get to Mars and how to design Orion systems to overcome difficulties when traveling into deep space.

In the clip, NASA engineer Kelly Smith also describes how Orion will take off from its original orbit of more than 160 km to an altitude of 6,000 km (altitudes above earth) before reaching its destination. To make this journey, Orion must cross - a thick band of radiation-active molecules in the earth's magnetic field, a dangerous area for astronauts.

" This radiation could be harmful to navigation systems, computers or other electronic devices on Orion ships, " said Smith. " Protection is required when the train cuts off radiation waves." We must address these challenges before taking people across these spatial areas. "

This is the statement that caused the opponents of NASA to jump into the debate: Certainly NASA brought people through this area in the 1960s and 1970s. Is it all just a scam?"The way this video explains that crossing the Van Allen belt and returning to earth is a very dangerous mission. If that (Apollo mission to the moon) is true, at least so far we have placed feet to Mars or even to fly manned flights to Mars satellites, to Saturn, Jupiter ", a reader comments.

Another reader doubts NASA has come to the moon with little protection. Many others have the idea that, if the moon missions are true, the "punching through the Van Allen belt" has been solved 40 years ago.

According to HuffingtonPost, the answer to the Van Allen belt problem is simple: Apollo astronauts were not in Van Allen long enough to face dangerous levels of radiation exposure. When they return to Earth, they are also significantly exposed to radiation, but the dose is still much lower than US regulations, such as prescribing radiation limits for workers working in nuclear power plants. The core of the Atomic Energy Commission is 5 rem or 5 rad / year (the average amount of radioactivity that Apollo crews reach the moon is absorbed from 0.18 to 0.55 rad, much lower than specified. as above).

Apollo 15.

The difference of the Martian Orion EFT-1 mission compared to the Apollo Moon program only has two things: equipment and time:

- In terms of equipment, compared to Apollo systems, Orion has many more complex and detailed electronic devices. These devices could be damaged by radiation, so they should be checked before humans are allowed to fly inside the Van Allen belt.

- In time, Orion not only passed through the Van Allen belt and returned in a few thousand short. It is designed for missions up to 21 days long and possibly longer if it engages in a mission to Mars. Therefore, Orion will face exposure to large amounts of radiation in space for months. Therefore, it is a good idea to check the protective layers and the amount of absorbed radiation.

According to the website, " traveling to space further than the international space station (ISS) 15 times will take Orion beyond the radiation protection zone formed from the atmosphere and the earth's magnetic field. In fact, most EFT- 1 will take place inside the Van Allen belts, the radiation clouds surrounding the earth, and no spaceship has been designed for humans who have crossed the Van Allen belts since the Apollo missions. , and even ships that only cross the belt are not long.

The future crew will also not plan to spend more time inside the Van Allen belts than necessary. Long-term missions into space will expose them to more radiation than astronauts ever. The program in the expanded Van Allen belt of EFT-1 will be a special opportunity to see how Orion's shell maintains this ship. The sensors will record peak radiation as well as radiation levels throughout the flight. This data can be used to map geographic hotspots ".

In fact, the test of launching Orion spacecraft on December 5, 2014 was successful. This is a historic turning point, one of the first steps in NASA's journey to Mars. The flight originated from this Cape Canaveral air station without a crew, which meant the solution to Van Allen's problem in the mission of bringing people into space farther away than the moon is still being prepared.

Official NASA clip on testing Orion spacecraft launch on Mars on December 5, 2014.

Late last year (December 11, 2017), President Donald Trump signed the first ordinance on space during his term, instructing NASA to cooperate with commercial space partners to bring Americans back to the surface. moon and on Mars. The signing of the ordinance was attended by two famous Apollo astronauts on the moon: Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11 in 1969, one of the first two men to set foot on the moon with Neil Armstrong) and Jack Schmitt (Apollo 17 in 1972, the last since then).

Getty photo: President Donald Trump in the ceremony signed the decree to bring the United States back to the moon.Second from right: Buzz Aldrin, Jack Schmitt

The purpose of returning to the moon this time is not simply to flag and observe as the previous ones, but also to long-term flights to help create jobs and accommodation for Americans, to exploit more of the space resources, thereby affirming the leading position in the world of US space.

Let's wait and see, when going to Mars becomes a big and urgent task directed by the president, what will the US aerospace agency do to solve the radiation belt problem soon? Van Allen is at the hardest level ever.