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How many G's of deceleration are we talking here? I imagine even 2Gs of force wouldn't be tolerable for humans for more than an hour



> even 2Gs of force wouldn't be tolerable for humans for more than an hour

You can tolerate 2G for hours, particularly if everyone's oriented eyeballs in. That said, both aerobraking and gravity assists are intermittent accleerations.




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