Originally Posted by John C. Ratliff

When my head hit the pavement harder than my hip, and my hip had permanent damage from skin torn away from the underlying tissue, a huge hemotoma which had to be drained for over a month, and still has that residual lump, this direct evidence says that the helmet mitigated the most dire effects of the hit my head took to the pavement.

By the way, I was on one of the Apollo 13 rescue crews in the USAF (it came down in the wrong ocean ), and it wasn't faked.

Believe what you want, the evidence points in a different direction, Six jours.

John