Johnsville Centrifuge
A facility at the Aviation Medical Acceleration Laboratory of the Navy Air Development Center, Johnsville, Pennsylvania, used throughout the early American space program; it was the most powerful centrifuge then in existence. With a 17-meter radius, it had a rate change of 10g/s and could reach 40 g/s. The 10-meter-diameter gimbal-mounted chamber was fully air-conditioned.
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• SPACE AND AEROSPACE MEDICINE
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