fuckyeahspaceexploration: This gimballing rig was designed to test astronauts’ ability to right a tumbling aircraft. It’s formally called MASTIF or Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility and it’s pictured operating in the Altitude Wind Tunnel at the (then) Lewis Research Center. It was designed as part of the Mercury program. I seriously want a turn in one of these. I loved flight school exercises for righting the airplane from unusual attitudes after temporary disorientation was a favorite exercise. This looks terribly difficult.
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This gimballing rig was designed to test astronauts’ ability to right a tumbling aircraft. It’s formally called MASTIF or Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility and it’s pictured operating in the Altitude Wind Tunnel at the (then) Lewis Research Center.

It was designed as part of the Mercury program.

I seriously want a turn in one of these. I loved flight school exercises for righting the airplane from unusual attitudes after temporary disorientation was a favorite exercise. This looks terribly difficult.

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