A Field Trip to the Moon - Jack Schmitt reflecting over Apollo 17

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Jack Schmitt reflecting on the Apollo 17 mission. Might be an interesting read to some of you.

http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep602/LEC1/trip.html

Especially interesting is his description of the effects during S-IC staging, haven't we discussed about that in an AMSO related thread in the M6 forums a few weeks ago?

Then, the first stage shut down, the rocket stack unloaded in the absence of thrust, the now useless first stage dropped away toward the Atlantic Ocean, and the SII second stage ignited to continue our upward and southeastward journey. This sequence took us from plus four G's, to minus one and a half G's, to plus one and a half G's in just over a second. That gets your attention!