Air & Space Magazine The Human Crash Test Dummy The man who set the G-force tolerance record Tony Reichhardt December 10, 2010 ShareCopy linkEmailSMSFacebookXRedditLinkedInBlueskyPrintAdd as preferred source MANNED ROCKET SLED RUN Watch on You had to hand it to John Stapp. When it came to exploring the limits of human tolerance, he didn't ask test subjects to try anything he wasn't willing to do himself.On this day in 1954, Stapp set the record for G-force tolerance—a whopping 46.2 Gs. You Might Also Like Lockheed’s Mom May 10, 2013 The First Hydrogen Bomb November 2, 2017 New Evidence Shows That Gus Grissom Did Not Accidentally Sink His Own Spacecraft 60 Years Ago July 21, 2021 This Month, Three Countries Are Heading Off to Mars May 21, 2020 The Spacewalk That Almost Killed Him March 19, 2014 Tony Reichhardt | Read More Tony Reichhardt is a senior editor at Air & Space. Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday. Email Powered by Salesforce Marketing Cloud (Privacy Notice / Terms & Conditions)
