Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hynek has established an informal Blue Book project of his own at Northwestern. He is particularly anxious to get reports from trained scientific observers whose anonymity he promises to preserve (to spare them ridicule from their colleagues). Hynek insists that UFO sightings are often made by reputable observers, including scientists and technicians. Says he: "It is a gross but popular misconception that UFO reports spring from 'ding-a-lings.' " Nonetheless, he admits that there is at least one established scientist who has not yet seen-or reported-his first flying saucer: J. Allen Hynek...
...disgust. The latest: Walt Cunningham, a member of the first manned Apollo flight, who coupled his resignation last week with a sharp blast at what he sees as growing U.S. indifference to space ventures. Within the astronaut ranks, there is even greater cause for complaint. The twelve remaining scientist-astronauts, recruited amid considerable fanfare in 1965 and 1967, have so far been confined to missions no more dramatic than T-38 jet-trainer flights...
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...
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...
When asked why he never received the Nobel Prize, Kistiakowsky replied, "I'm not a top scientist. That's a figment of somebody's imagination. I'm faithful, hardworking, intelligent, but that's about it. I know of nothing I've done to justify the Nobel Prize...