[net.space] Acceleration of Apollo and Shuttle

sdb@shark.UUCP (Steven Den Beste) (10/14/83)

I seem to recall that the Apollo astronauts were subjected to 8 G's.
The Shuttle boosts at about 3 G's.

There is an interesting trade-off in that: higher G boosts are more
efficient in fuel, so payload is increased. On the other hand, you
have to build your payload stronger and brace it better, which is
parasitic and a pain to boot.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if it is harder to build engines tat
run at the higher boost - and making them multi-shot wuld be even
harder.

   Steve Den Beste