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Air Force Research Laboratory Altitude Chambers Hit Rare 50,000-Foot Mark for Manned Research
April 27, 2022
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, April 27 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news:

By Jason Schaap

Air Force Research Laboratory Public Affairs

There's only one place to find them in all the Department of Defense, and that's at the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Three of the lab's Research Altitude Chambers, better known as the RACs, are now certified for manned research up to 50,000 feet. No other chambers in the DoD have the . . .

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