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Space Rocket History #191 – Apollo 10 – The Climb to Orbit

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:36:31
Publish Date: 2021-05-26 16:58:57
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At first stage cutoff the astronauts expected to encounter a single pulse of negative G and the crew would be thrown forward in their straps before the Second stage ignited and recommenced the acceleration. However, they actually encountered a form of pogo which continued for 4 cycles, during which they were “slammed forward, back, forward, back, forward, back, and forward, back. At this point the instrument panel was so blurred the astronauts could not read it.

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