High Restraint Research Articles

A hypothetical mission to space in a three-man sealed cabin

This paper deals with a hypothetical flight into orbit in a sealed crew cabin with three persons constituting the crew. It is assumed that the vehicle is vertically launched and enters into orbit for 30 days followed by a high life re-entry and landing. Some of the problems concerning the accelerations during launch, weightless flight, cabin layout, high acceleration crew seats, restraint systems, feeding devices and human elimination devices are discussed. The paper endeavors to describe some of the WADC “in-house” efforts to find practical solutions to these problems.