It’s trained thousands of aviators about the dangers of high gravitational forces. The booming commercial space industry could keep it in business for years to come.
Stepping into Building 170 on the former Brooks AFB is like passing through a time machine back to the earliest days of the space race.
For 61 years, thousands of aviators and scientists have battled the facility’s human centrifuge — known as the Beast, ’Fuge or Wheel — to learn firsthand about the dangers of extreme gravitational forces.
Read the full story, here: Human centrifuge at San Antonio’s Brooks still spinning after 61 years (expressnews.com)