Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
Always amuses me when people say they don't believe that they could have got safely through the Van Allen belt.
A quick Google will lead you to a large number of explanations and calculations showing it is demonstrably safe for the time they spent going through it.
Yet presumably you've read a nut job website that has told you it is literally impossible to survive going through and you've decided to accept that without question.

Ya, they said these were safe as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Grapple

Don't believe everything you read.