NASA strapped a helmet called the Apollo Light Flash Moving Emulsion Detector around astronauts’ heads in the dark, and every time a crewman called out a flash, the plates had caught a particle crossing straight through his skull

On Apollo 16 and 17, NASA strapped nuclear emulsion plates around astronauts' heads to prove the mysterious light flashes crewmen had been reporting since Apollo 11 were actually cosmic ray particles crossing through their skulls. The post NASA strapped a helmet called the Apollo Light Flash Moving Emulsion Detector around astronauts’ heads in the dark, and every time a crewman called out a flash, the plates had caught a particle crossing straight through his skull appeared first on Space Daily