Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cone-shaped ship consists of two sections or modules. In the top section, Command Pilot Grissom, Senior Pilot White and Pilot Chaffee occupied three cockpit couches looking up at the ship's maze of controls-gauges, dials, switches, lights and toggles. The service module below is essentially an engine room, housing fuel, the crew's oxygen, the basic electrical system, and a large rocket with 22,500 Ibs. of thrust to be used for space maneuverings, braking the ship into lunar orbit and supplying the propulsion necessary to send it back to earth. The whole capsule...
...applied again when he turned 18, spent his wartime service as an aviation cadet. After his discharge, he got a mechanical-engineering degree at Purdue before rejoining the Air Force in 1950 to stay. He flew 100 combat missions in the Korean War, later became a hot-shot test pilot. He had a passion for speed, on water, land or in the air: he took up powerboat racing, teamed up with Astronaut Gordon Cooper to buy a piece of a racing car entered in last year's Indianapolis...
...assessment program was unveiled by former Education Commissioner Francis Keppel at the 1965 White House Conference on Education. He argued that "the nation's taxpayers and their representatives in Congress have every right to know whether their investment in education is paying off." In agreeing to finance pilot tests, Carnegie said that "a nation that has hitched its destiny to the star of education and pours billions of dollars into the enterprise is collectively crazy if it does not try to find out the result of all this effort. We don't know whether most ninth-graders...
This month three school districts co operated in trying out the first pilot tests on 700 fourth-graders. The students were asked to read a clock, show the meaning of numbers by using colored rods or an abacus, pick similar pictures from a group of four. Later this year, up to 50,000 children and adults will be sampled. High school seniors may be asked to fill out a driver's license application, while adults may be quizzed about their reading habits and asked to demonstrate skills with simple tools...
...Tyler committee will study the results of the pilot tests, hopes to make its final report to the Carnegie Corporation by year's end. Tyler is confident that the committee will find national assessment feasible. It may recommend that an independent national commission, rather than the Office of Education, undertake a permanent testing program, most likely with federal funds. Coercive & Comparative. Both HEW Secretary John Gardner, who was head of the Carnegie Corporation when testing was first proposed, and Education Commissioner Harold Howe favor the program. So does the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which recently implied its support...