Word: apollos
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...gleaming titanium space monument that had been donated by Russia to the Palais des Nations. There was particular gloom in the U.S. space community, especially among the astronauts. Beyond their sorrow for the dead cosmonauts, they felt that the accident-coming as it did on the eve of the Apollo 15 moon shot-might well diminish public enthusiasm for manned space travel...
...perception with science fiction movies and low laughs from nightclub comics, there is also a growing number of scientists who believe that ESP is as worthwhile as reaching for the stars. Among these Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, U.S.N., reported last week on his ESP experiments conducted during the flight of Apollo 14 last February...
...cancer. It will also make more money available for basic research, which, according to Dr. James Holland of Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, will "increase the momentum of discovery." But it is unlikely to produce real results with anything even remotely resembling the speed of the Manhattan and Apollo Projects, with which it has been compared...
...Astronaut (Houghton Mifflin). O'Leary denounces what he calls the undisguised "test-pilot dominance" at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center. Largely at the insistence of Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton, the influential director of flight-crew operations, only experienced military and civilian fliers have been chosen for Apollo crews. Such skilled aviators were surely essential on the first space flights. But now that flight and landing techniques are well developed and scientific experimentation has come to the fore, the scientists argue that the importance of the jet pilots' role has diminished...
Like Robots. Some scientist-astronauts grumble that the scientific ineptness of some of the pilots has already been costly. Apollo 14 Astronauts Al Shepard and Ed Mitchell aligned antennas so poorly that only weak radio signals from lunar experiments are being received on earth. Says one NASA scientist of their performance: "They acted like robots, picked up rocks, put out equipment and took pictures. But they didn't really see anything...