Regarding Hoagland: it feels strange to use a twinkie to fight a twinkie, but Hoagland's page on radiation does a very thorough showing that the Apollo astronauts indeed could survive the trip through the Van Allen Belt.

OK, I can't find it anymore. I don't spend a lot of time there. But if you weed out the "what we REALLY found on the moon" malarkey, Hoagland does a good debunking of Percy, Collier, et al.

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Argh!! They booby-trapped their sun!!****--Invader ZIM