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Pre-order your Johnsville Centrifuge pin all this month here: In the early 1960s, NASA rolled up to a US Navy facility in Pennsylvania with one goal in mind: stick its newly-minted astronauts into one of the most extreme centrifuges that has ever been built, and whirl them around really fast to train for the extreme g-forces they'll experience during a space launch. But astronauts aren't the only people who have been subject to a ride in the Johnsville Centrifuge. One man even got to do it sitting in his own recliner... Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! Or support us directly: Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: DrakoEsper , Friso, Garrett Galloway, Kenny Wilson, J. Copen, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Jaap Westera, Rizwan Kassim, Christoph Schwanke, Jeffrey Mckishen, Harrison Mills, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Chris Mackey, Adam Brainard, Ash, Sam Lutfi, You too can be a nice person, Piya Shedden, charles george, Alex Hackman, Kevin Knupp, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: TikTok: @scishow Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources:
