Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Can anyone identify these pictures (from this text description?)
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.133843.23859@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <Jul.24.02.02.22.1990.22224@remus.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 90 13:38:43 GMT

In article <Jul.24.02.02.22.1990.22224@remus.rutgers.edu> broderic@remus.rutgers.edu (Alfred J. Broderick) writes:
>...In the second picture his face is disfigured and in
>the
>last photo his face is very stretched and compressed generally all messed
>up.
>
>Does anyone know what was happening in this photo? ...

This is very probably from John Stapp's rocket-sled experiments, in which he
was exposed to very high decelerations, 40+ gees as I recall, momentarily.
A good book on aerospace medicine would probably have more detail.
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