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http://www.scitech.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/Forcefield.aspx

So you don't have to copy and paste:

http://www.scitech.ac.uk/PMC/PRel/STFC/Forcefield.aspx


Hope this becomes practical. Would be a real boost for making manned interplanetary missions possible.

Hmmm. They say in the article this shield technology can and will be used to protect ships that are in space and are bombarded by deadly radiation.
I wonder, what protection did they used on the ship who went on the moon ? Or is this distance to the moon still inside the inner part of the magnetic shield the eart makes ?

Does this shield spam over 380k Km across so that they didn't need the shield that are in making today ?

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Hmmm. They say in the article this shield technology can and will be used to protect ships that are in space and are bombarded by deadly radiation. I wonder, what protection did they used on the ship who went on the moon ? Or is this distance to the moon still inside the inner part of the magnetic shield the eart makes ? Does this shield spam over 380k Km across so that they didn't need the shield that are in making today ?

Oh, i just finished reading the article. They talked about the moon landing. LOOL they said they were lucky not to encounter solar badluck.

Were they insane to take a chance like that ?

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The Apollo astronauts of the 1960¿s and 70¿s who walked upon the Moon are the only humans to have travelled beyond the Earth¿s natural ¿force field¿ ¿ the Earth¿s magnetosphere. With typical journeys to the Moon lasting about 8 days, the Apollo astronauts were simply lucky not to have encountered a major eruption on the Sun that would have flooded their spacecraft with deadly radiation. A journey to Mars, however, would take about eighteen months, during which time it is almost certain that astronauts would be enveloped by such a storm.

oh my god hahaha

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Quote (Bytales @ Nov. 11 2008, 7:36 pm) Hmmm. They say in the article this shield technology can and will be used to protect ships that are in space and are bombarded by deadly radiation. I wonder, what protection did they used on the ship who went on the moon ? Or is this distance to the moon still inside the inner part of the magnetic shield the eart makes ? Does this shield spam over 380k Km across so that they didn't need the shield that are in making today ? Oh, i just finished reading the article. They talked about the moon landing. LOOL they said they were lucky not to encounter solar badluck. Were they insane to take a chance like that ?

No, they weren't.

There was a monitoring system to observe the sun to watch for solar flares.

The Apollo's hull blocked a good deal of radiation. In case of a flare, they could face the service module in such a way as to use it as additional shielding.

Probability is another factor.
During the week and a half or so of time in cislunar space, there wasn't much of a chance of a big flare occuring.
And during the stay time on the lunar surface (a max of 3 days for Apollo's 15-17. The rest were shorter stays (except for Apollo 13)), there was even a lesser chance of a flare occuring.

The shielding is meant for stay times on the order of months. As mentioned in the article, this will be encoutered for manned Mars missions.