When the deceleration finally stopped, Rip didn’t wait for gravity.
Stubby wings, useful for the ticklish operation of skip-glide deceleration and re-entry into the atmosphere, slid out of their sheaths.
After a long deceleration they were afraid to draw any more power for propulsion from their weakened batteries.
Plenty of time to kick-in vector and deceleration programs.
Holden was in the pilot house when Edwards began turning on the deceleration tubes.
He took a deep breath and applied full deceleration with the braking jets and simultaneously began manipulating the steering rockets.
The quick deceleration gave the impression of added weight, pushing them hard against their chest harnesses.
During reentry into the atmosphere, a peak deceleration of about 60 g was reached.
Effects of Deceleration on Rats Exposed to Prolonged Centrifugation.
Their muscles had refused to lift their chests at all during the most brutal of the deceleration period.
So Mike had taken the deceleration and the murderous vibration almost in his stride.
This was deceleration at a higher figure yet, and accompanied by the shaking of bodies which weighed seven times as much as ever before--and bodies, too, which for weeks past had been subject to no weight at all.
At 25 miles high there was as horrible a vibration and as deadly a deceleration as at the air-graze.
God knows why, but during those five minutes he drew up this plan for improving our deceleration compensator.
His brain cried, You couldn't rig up a radar system or a deceleration compensator, but you could chart those asteroids.
Their deceleration spiral swept them around the planet, cutting lower into the atmosphere, braking against it.
Casker nodded and punched a deceleration spiral into the ship's tape.
He came out of it sluggishly, to find the relief from the dreadful pressure almost as stupefying as the deceleration itself.
He saw briefly the flare of the jet reflected off the remnants of his cloud of station stores before deceleration with all its unpleasantness began.
