Read more: https://infinite.mit.edu/video/harrison-schmitt-%E2%80%9C-trip-moon-mass-space-grant-consortium-public-lecture-4191995
TIL A solar particle event was a major risk for astronauts on the moon. One plan was to create a trench, drive the lunar Rover over it, pile dirt over the Rover, and stay underneath there for hours
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You should also learn today that “solar particle events” – i.e. Coronal Mass Ejections – and just background radiation in space are huge threats to extra-planetary monkeys in general.
Fun fact: One of the best defenses against ionizing space radiation is human waste.
Saw this on For All Mankind, was wondering how accurate it was.
My brother called it the Lunar Fido
People still believe we went to the moon? In this [piece of shit](https://i.imgur.com/wo0T7Qa.jpg)?