The Great Lunar Lie - Contributed by Arunima Hegde. If three men had gone to the moon and we know for certain that one was left behind in the probe to monitor things. One in the picture, two in the visor and one in the probe. Also the men in the visor do not have cameras. The questions don't stop there.
Outer space is awash with deadly radiation that emanates from solar flares firing out from the sun.
The earth's Van Allen belt protects standard astronauts orbiting earth in near space. But the Moon is to 240,000 miles distant, way outside this safe band. And, during the Apollo flights, astronomical data shows there were no less than 1,485 such flares. John Mauldin, a physicist who works for NASA, once said shielding at least two meters thick would be needed. Not one Apollo astronaut ever contracted cancer - not even the Apollo 16 crew who were on their way to the Moon when a big flare started.