IMITATION OF SPACE SHIP
Cabin For,Research In Pressure Flying (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. The United States Air Force said yesterday it had acquired its first imitation space ship—a non-flying sealed cabin for the study of human factors in passage through outer space. The cabin has been delivered to the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine at San Antonio, Texas. It is designed to give researchers most of the sensations they would experience on a flight of several hours or days in space. Actually it is related to the lowpressure chambers in which Air Force specialists for some years have studied human reactions to the thin air in the stratosphere and beyond it. But low-pressure or “altitude” chambers reproduce conditions in the air outside the craft. They tell the physiologist what happens when things go wrong and a pressurised plane loses its pressure. The sealed cabin is designed to show what goes on inside the space ship, where a careful balance of atmospheric conditions must be artificially
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27425, 11 August 1954, Page 6
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