Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manpower for research. Far too little is known about the mass murderer because he erupts infrequently?and even less frequently survives to be examined. Psychiatrists firmly believe that Richard Speck, accused of the nurse killings, ought to be studied intensively rather than punished by society, if found guilty. Pilot studies in Massachusetts and Illinois of juvenile offenders indicate that many potential psychotics may be identifiable and curable while in their teens, and an important segment of the medical profession has not given up hope of finding the cure to psychosis in the chemistry of the brain. While science may never...
...Psychologists at Pensacola Naval Air Station now give pilot-training candidates an aptitude test by punch keys and computer in 45 minutes, as against two days with pad and pencil...
...from the on-board radar, inertial guidance and computer system. In some as yet unknown way, the system produced a figure nearly 7 ft. per sec. greater than the figure radioed up from ground control. When Collins' own slide-rule tabulation agreed with the spacecraft guidance system, Command Pilot Young chose to go with the double-checked on-board answer...
Even more ambitious flight plans are now being polished for Commander Charles Conrad (command pilot) and Lieut. Commander Richard Gordon (pilot), who are scheduled to launch in Gemini 11 shortly after Labor Day. To be attempted...
...full space walk (at lower altitudes) during which Pilot Gordon will manipulate a battery-operated wrench to fasten and unfasten several bolts on a plate outside the spacecraft...