News has been keeping tabs on his development during his astronaut training.
It’s an exam that every aspiring astronaut must pass. It’s not, however, suitable for the timid or the claustrophobic.
The door clangs shut and John McFall is plunged into the shadows of a metal box the size of a coffin.
The whirling starts.
He’s being spun around and around inside a massive centrifuge, simulating the intense gravity forces of a rocket launch and the considerably stronger G-Forces of falling back down.
