on the moon show, they had all these professors and astronomy experts on there... DARING NASA to send a mouse, a dog, a person, ANYTHING to the moon. Said those thin aluminum suits would not have been able to protect them from the radiation in space that is blocked out by our atmosphere.
Those suits are kinda thin. I dunno. We did win the Space Race, and USSR did go broke 20 years later, so it's not a bad thing we BSed it. Just goes to show you how gangsta our country is. I wouldn't wanna live anywhere else.