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Offline Dalhousie

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Astronaut training
« on: December 01, 2015, 05:49:43 PM »
Just out: "Science Training History of the Apollo Astronauts"

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/strategies/Phinney_NASA-SP-2015-626.pdf

Lots of good stuff there, some of it new (at least to me)

Offline bknight

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Re: Astronaut training
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2015, 08:06:51 PM »
Dr. Silverman was proud of his "students"
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Offline BazBear

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Re: Astronaut training
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2015, 09:26:09 PM »
Dr. Silverman was proud of his "students"
Indeed. And he was such a great teacher that even the most skeptical of the astronauts became enthusiastic "amateur" field geologists.
"It's true you know. In space, no one can hear you scream like a little girl." - Mark Watney, protagonist of The Martian by Andy Weir

Offline Dalhousie

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Re: Astronaut training
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2015, 10:41:37 PM »
Dr. Silverman was proud of his "students"

I think you mean Silver, not Silverman

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Re: Astronaut training
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2015, 02:16:23 PM »
Dr. Silverman was proud of his "students"

I think you mean Silver, not Silverman
I stand corrected, thank you.
Truth needs no defense.  Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.
Eugene Cernan