John Gridunov

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1926 –

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Who is John Gridunov?

John Ivanovich Gridunov is a tester of the former Soviet spacecraft equipment. Being the so-called ground cosmonaut, Gridunov conducted several environmental tests, including the explosive decompression while testing a space suit. He is the only person to experience a short-time acceleration of 50 g, during an emergency landing imitation.

Gridunov also sustained a 19 g centrifuge acceleration in the spine-chest direction without related accommodation.

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1926

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on July 23, 2013

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