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hammocktoday at 8:23 PM0 repliesview on HN

The same protection against solar storms (which does nothing against cosmic rays) WILL also protect against exposure to the Van Allen belts.

Remember the van allen belt radiation is what spawned a lot of fake moon landing theories that suggested transit thru the van allen belts was not survivable with the limited/no protection that our astronauts had at the time.