Re: Saturn V staging

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:59:17 -0400, Jeff Findley wrote:

Now, you've got the F-1 engines at one end of this giant spring and the
astronauts are at the other end of the spring. Now cut off the engines
and what happens? The compressed spring relaxes, pushing the F-1
engines backwards and pushing the CM forwards. Once the spring expands
completely, it stops, but the astronauts are only held in by their
straps, so their forward motion has to be stopped by those straps.

Wouldn't the shock absorbers that hold the crew couches up also
decompress at separation? Thus also throwing them forward?

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