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Reply from a Pilot-Astronaut...
...your article "Moscow High, Houston Low" [June 28], you revive the old "scientist-astronaut v. pilot-astronaut" issue in a way that is totally misleading...
...EDGAR D. MITCHELL Captain, U.S.N. NASA Astronaut Houston...
While there are still plenty of people who associate extrasensory 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...
Their feelings are expressed by former scientist-astronaut Brian O'Leary in his book, The Making of an Ex-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...