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However, experts at the European Space Agency suspect the planned tests will tax the body so greatly that the experiments will fail.
I can't help wondering uneasily what they mean by "fail". As in "die"?

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And I don't see why they want to do these experiments. When would an astronaut normally encounter 7 G forces, anyway?
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During a typical shuttle flight, astronauts spend less than 30 minutes in hypergravity conditions - up to 3.2 G during take-off and 1.4 G on re-entry. Most of their journey is spent weightless as they orbit the Earth.
Somebody refresh my memory--what kind of G-forces were they able to achieve with the rocket sleds?
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And I don't see why they want to do these experiments. When would an astronaut normally encounter 7 G forces, anyway?
I sorta agree, but I believe the rational is that they want to condition the experimentees to high g forces before they go to 22 hours of twice g.
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48 Gs (VERY briefly).

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