Commenting on my 4/15/2011 post, John Murawski asked if my dad had ever used the centrifuge at Johnsville in Philly. By sheer coincidence I was moving some image files around today and ran into this:
It says AMES on the helmet and the suit, so this was almost certainly taken at NASA Ames, not Johnsville. Sorry, John.
[ Update: Hmm. The capsule says Navy. I would have thought a centrifuge at NASA Ames would say NASA on it. So, I guess I have no idea where this was taken. And probably the suit and helmet were merely brought wherever from Ames. ]
I have vague memories of seeing the centrifuge at Ames, probably in the late 60's. What I remember, though, is a framed certificate he had, congratulating him on his "unusual courage" in allowing his body to be subjected to extreme "eyeballs-in and eyeballs-out" G loads.
There's no real point here, just memories that floated up because of random coincidences.
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