NASA is debating whether the new Orion capsule should land in the water, like Apollo, or on land, similar to how the Russian Soyuz capsule returns to Earth. To help them determine the potential for human injuries with each possible landing scenario, NASA has used human cadavers during their tests. At first, this [...]

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From the NASA statement:

"postmortem human subject"


Bless you, boys. Never use one word when three or more will do.

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Car crash tests have used human cadavers as well. i don't think this is still in practice anywhere but if I recall this was either a Saab and Volvo thing or perhaps a BMW thing. hmmm.

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The occupants were from a defunct rock band--Franklin Stein and the stiffs

Sign me up for this duty! Well, after I kick the bucket. Which won't be for a long while. I hope.

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Godspeed, John Glenn. - Scott Carpenter

And these atomic bombs that science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men that used them.
- H.G Wells, The World Set Free

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I know a number of people who have donated their bodies to University medical programs, so their remains can be used by medical students after death.

Research like this is important and you cant really leave it to 'computer simulations'....