Sentences with phrase «stomached by astronauts»
During test jumps, the robot briefly experienced accelerations of about 13.8 g — more than three times those stomached by astronauts on the space shuttle as they were boosted into orbit.
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The space shuttle is an ear - splitting, bone - rattling ride, beginning with eight minutes of inertial forces peaking at three g's (three times an individual astronaut's weight) followed by a near - instant, stomach - churning flip to zero gravity.