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Pioneering space race research: G-forces and human physiology

An excerpt from Life at High G-Force: The Quest of Mayo Clinic Researcher Dr. Earl H Wood. Tensions were high in the Aero Medical Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in the fall of 1959. The space race with the Soviet Union…

An excerpt from Life at High G-Force: The Quest of Mayo Clinic Researcher Dr. Earl H Wood.

Tensions were high in the Aero Medical Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in the fall of 1959. The space race with the Soviet Union to send a human into outer space and eventually to the moon was in full gear.

Laboratory personnel were busy preparing the human centrifuge and a human subject for an experiment …

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Pioneering space race research: G-forces and human physiology