>Luckily, that was
>considerable, even if he had lost his helmet on the way through
>- whatever the hell that was - and so had to rely only on
>shifts of his body weight and the X-15A-2's limited thrust vectoring
>capabilities to steer.

Not gonna lie, until my brain caught up with context I pictured trying to steer an X-15 by throwing yourself around the cockpit.

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Mr. Fnord, "but it works in Kerbal Space Program!" is not an acceptable excuse.