On the Fact that the Famed Astronaut, Alan Bean, Once Claimed that They (He and His Fellow Astronauts) Never Went Through the Van Allen Radiation Belts Because They Hadn't Been Discovered by Then

I'm sorry but that's ludicrous. I mean, that's like saying that Amerigo Vespucci never discovered the South American continent for Europe because no European navigator had been there before.......And why has such a revealing confession like this been totally ignored by the media? That's big question, too.