The team at NASA can simulate a splash landing at sea or crash landing on firmer ground, and their sensor laden crash test dummies help provide a myriad of information that can help inform the design of everything from seats to spacesuit helmets.
The tests in this video look quick, but as Martin Annett, a structural impact dynamics engineer at the facility explains, everything you want to know about injury occurs in anywhere from 1/10 to 4/10 of a second.
PMI falls as manufacturers feel the squeeze
17 months or two and a half years - which is it?