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conquering the heavens. This barrier is space radiation.

In 1958 Explorer 1, the United States’ first satellite, was launched atop a JPL Juno rocket, which was
itself a modified Jupiter rocket. Juno is the name of a Roman goddess, and queen of the gods. The
name for the rocket was proposed by William Pickering, head of JPL from 1954 to 1976. William
Pickering, incidentally is Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and
a Member of The Order of New Zealand. The organizations awarding these honors have direct ties
to Freemasonry.

Pickering, Van Allen, and Von Braun Holding a Model of Explorer I

James Van Allen was a space scientist. He oversaw the design of Explorer 1’s equipment to test for
radiation in space. He is credited with discovering intense bands of radiation which encompass the
Earth. Radiation is trapped in space by the Earth’s magnetic field. This magnetic field protects the
Earth from a lethal bombardment of highly energetic electrons and other polarized particles, but also
concentrates these particles in immense bands of radiation which act as a barrier, preventing humans
from traveling through them to space beyond. This barrier, known as the Van Allen Radiation Belts
(VARB) proved to be far more intense than scientists had suspected. The VARB begin
approximately 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) above the surface of the Earth and extend to 37,000
miles (60,000 kilometers). The Moon is approximately 240,000 miles from Earth, requiring that
anyone traveling to the Moon traverse the VARB on both their outbound and return journeys.

Aside from the Apollo Moon missions of 1969-1972, no man has ever claimed to have entered or
passed through the VARB. The International Space Station orbits the Earth at an elevation of 249
miles, well below the beginning of the radiation belts. Similarly, the Russian space station Mir
orbited the earth at an elevation between 184 miles (296 kilometers) and 262 miles (421 kilometers)
above the Earth. This is referred to as “Low Earth Orbit.”

I acquired a copy of the March 1959 edition of Scientific American in which an article is found by
James Van Allen, discussing the discovery of the radiation belts surrounding the Earth.

Our measurements show that the maximum radiation level as of 1958 is equivalent to between 10
and 100 roentgens per hour, depending on the still undetermined proportion of protons to electrons.
Since a human being exposed for two days to even 10 roentgens would have only an even chance of
survival, the radiation belts obviously present an obstacle to space flight... A "space station" must
orbit below 400 miles or beyond 30,000 miles from the Earth. We are now planning a satellite flight
that will test the efficacy of various methods of shielding.