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Topic: Astronauts experiencing vertigo on the pads
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tetrox
Member Posts: 142
From: London England
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 11-10-2010 02:12 PM
   
Watching Saturn V footage of astronauts crossing the swing arm to the white room, got me thinking that there must have been a lot of movement in the structures at these heights.Were there ever any problems either documented or anecdotal with either engineers or astronauts working at height suffering from vertigo, even within the VAB I can imagine there must have been some found working at height uncomfortable. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3120
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-10-2010 05:16 PM
One well-known Apollo astronaut often tells the story of the even-better-known Apollo astronaut who "froze" on the cat-walk leading across the swing-arm to the white-room. Sorry, I couldn't possibly name names, but the well-known astronaut's forthcoming memoirs just might.... |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 11-10-2010 05:44 PM
If the forthcoming memoirs you refer to are John Young's, that leaves a pretty small pool of "suspects"...  |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 11-10-2010 07:01 PM
Tom Stafford? |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 1310
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted 11-12-2010 03:48 PM
...Stafford already wrote his autobiography, 'We Have Capture', several years ago so he could not be the 'well-known Apollo astronaut'. |
jasonelam
Member Posts: 691
From: Monticello, KY USA
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 11-12-2010 04:07 PM
I think they mean that Tom Stafford is the one that suffered vertigo on the access arm. |
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