Apollo, the Moon and Van Allen

shacko

Just finished Andrew Smith's Mondust. Can anybody tell me did any of the Apollo astranauts have children after visting the moon or did the Van Allens radiation belt make them sterile

ISAW

shacko wrote:

Just finished Andrew Smith's Mondust. Can anybody tell me did any of the Apollo astranauts have children after visting the moon or did the Van Allens radiation belt make them sterile

why dont you look here and find out?:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/apollo.crews.html
http://www.spacefacts.de/english/bio_ast.htm

As regards the general point:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/04/050421212352.htm
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/102/17/6063
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/102/17/6063

Spear

shacko wrote:

Just finished Andrew Smith's Mondust. Can anybody tell me did any of the Apollo astranauts have children after visting the moon or did the Van Allens radiation belt make them sterile

The radiation exposure from passing through the Van Allen belts was on a par with a single chest x-ray, hardly enough to render them sterile.