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NASA Apollo 15 Astronaut's Confession: 'Can't do anything to me now'
- dTal 7y agoCrappy source but interesting anecdote. Summary to save you wading through clickbait: "According to Mr Worden, the three seats in the Apollo Command Module were mounted on swivelled shock absorbers. When the astronaut fired the spacecraft’s engines to hit a stable orbit around the Moon, he was turned away from the Command Module’s console. "You talk about freaked out. I was really freaked because I could not reach a single control. So thank God the computer worked and it stopped at the right time and I was ok"" Interestingly, the sci-fi series "The Expanse" "predicted" a very similar scenario - a test firing of a new engine unexpectedly yielded enough acceleration to prevent the pilot from reaching the controls to shut the engine down. I wonder if there are other well-known instances of this sort of thing.