Medical tests carried out at School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks U S Air Force Base, Tex, to select astronaut candidates and 18-mo training program at Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Tex; there are 10 courses offered, some of them devoted to background information concerning overall space program, others offered to familiarize candidate with various NASA projects and space flight operations; basic courses are astronomy, physics of upper atmosphere, flight mechanics, meteorology, rocket propulsion, medical aspects of space flight, and, for those destined for lunar landing missions, most extensive course, geology.
Making of astronaut
Spaceflight
Spaceflight ; 9 , n 12
1967
2 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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