>>1811767
>So have we already been to the moon?
My guess is yes…and sometime along the way we discovered we were less than welcome which is why we've not been back.
A little known thing (sadly) is the Van Allen belt experiment that failed. We face the same issue getting beyond it as our "ancestors" did..so they launched a tether that was supposed to clear the way..tether broke lose and now is floating about in the belt providing a conduit for radiation to funnel to earth. So apparently this experiment did happen and failed? Now orbiting and leaking non stop.
>High Voltage Orbiting Long Tether, or HiVOLT, is a concept proposed by Russian physicist V. V. Danilov and further refined by Robert P. Hoyt and Robert L. Forward for draining and removing the radiation fields of the Van Allen radiation belts[35] that surround the Earth.[36] A proposed configuration consists of a system of five 100 km long conducting tethers deployed from satellites, and charged to a large voltage. This would cause charged particles that encounter the tethers to have their pitch angle changed; thus, over time, dissolving the inner belts. Hoyt and Forward's company, Tethers Unlimited, performed a preliminary analysis simulation in 2011, and produced a chart depicting a theoretical radiation flux reduction,[37] to less than 1% of current levels within two months for the inner belts that threaten LEO objects.[38]