[FPSPACE] Death in space

[Anatoly Zak]

Nazis did it for aviation-related "research", essentially to test how long
pilots of high-altitude planes would survive at the low pressure and lack of
oxygen.  

Anatoly Zak

-----Original Message-----
From: JamesOberg@aol.com [mailto:JamesOberg@aol.com]
Sent: 21 сентября 2000 г. 14:42
To: clj@emc.com; wayneday@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
Cc: fpspace@friends-partners.org
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Death in space


In a message dated 9/21/00 1:38:06 PM Central Daylight Time, clj@emc.com 
writes: << It should come as no surprise that such experiments were
performed 
in the '40s. You have one guess as to who did these tests...  That's right, 
the Nazis.  (It
 should also come as no surprise that the experimental subjects were not
 volunteers.) >>

I am surprised. I've heard about the ice-water tests and other ghastly 
tortures, but what on Earth would the Nazis doctors be doing with vacuum 
exposure? Are you sure this isn''t a space-urban-legend or a garbled memory?
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