1965 scientist-astronaut recruitment brochure quotation

1965 scientist-astronaut recruitment brochure quotation


I'm looking for the wording on NASA's recruitment brochure
on the 1965 (first-ever) scientist-astronaut cadre, specifically
the language of seeking 'perspicacity' and its definition as a trait
that leads one to keep one's eyes open and notice unusual
phenomena -- or something like that. Can anyone help?
And I'm seeking examples where space travelers later exhibited
exactly this trait -- spotting something weird that wasn't part of
pre-flight programs, that turned out to have scientific value --
such as Buzz Aldrin's 'light flashes' on the way to the Moon,
or Georgiy Grechko's unauthorized sleep-period sketches of
noctilucent clouds...

Thanks!

Jim O
www.jamesoberg.com

Jim Oberg wrote:
1965 scientist-astronaut recruitment brochure quotation


I'm looking for the wording on NASA's recruitment brochure
on the 1965 (first-ever) scientist-astronaut cadre, specifically
the language of seeking 'perspicacity' and its definition as a trait
that leads one to keep one's eyes open and notice unusual
phenomena -- or something like that. Can anyone help?
And I'm seeking examples where space travelers later exhibited
exactly this trait -- spotting something weird that wasn't part of
pre-flight programs, that turned out to have scientific value --
such as Buzz Aldrin's 'light flashes' on the way to the Moon,
or Georgiy Grechko's unauthorized sleep-period sketches of
noctilucent clouds...

Thanks!

Jim O
www.jamesoberg.com


Here is a 1966 NASA press release for the 1967 astronaut selection. The
word "perspicacity" is used on pdf page 180.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/...8main_1966.pdf



Rusty

Rusty wrote:


Here is a 1966 NASA press release for the 1967 astronaut selection. The
word "perspicacity" is used on pdf page 180.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/...8main_1966.pdf



"Just like a hammerhead shark, this one, mate!
Zeros in on it using those two separated electrical field sensors on its
head to read the internet!
Does it by differential input to its eyes!
Triangulates on it...then....BOOM.... right into the hard drive it goes!
One of nature's most cunning PDF feeding machines!
Nothing gets away from it!
Crikey!" :-)

Pat

Thanks, Rusty -- I 'THINK' the 1965 recruitment blurb had the same wording,
this is the way I remember it.



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Jim Oberg wrote:
1965 scientist-astronaut recruitment brochure quotation


I'm looking for the wording on NASA's recruitment brochure
on the 1965 (first-ever) scientist-astronaut cadre, specifically
the language of seeking 'perspicacity' and its definition as a trait
that leads one to keep one's eyes open and notice unusual
phenomena -- or something like that. Can anyone help?
And I'm seeking examples where space travelers later exhibited
exactly this trait -- spotting something weird that wasn't part of
pre-flight programs, that turned out to have scientific value --
such as Buzz Aldrin's 'light flashes' on the way to the Moon,
or Georgiy Grechko's unauthorized sleep-period sketches of
noctilucent clouds...

Thanks!

Jim O
www.jamesoberg.com


Here is a 1966 NASA press release for the 1967 astronaut selection. The
word "perspicacity" is used on pdf page 180.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/...8main_1966.pdf



Rusty

Armstrong punching out of the LEM sim. Armstrong aware that landing was
"a little long." Armstrong's landing on low fuel but within minimums.
The ground controller figuring out the 1802 alarm. Apollo (15?) figuring
out workaround after the metal braid shorted the engine arm switch.
Apollo 12 going to manual control after the lightning strike. Apollo 13
extending the burn after Saturn 5 engine shutdown. Gemini crew for not
hitting the abort switch escape rocket when the 1st stage shut off
*after* the clock started running.

Judgement is a rare commodity. I can make judgements that seemed to be
sound but had a defective outcome. Judgement that results in success is
perspicacity.

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per·spi·cac·i·ty /?p?rsp?'kæs?ti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled
Pronunciation[pur-spi-kas-i-tee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA
Pronunciation
-noun 1. keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment;
penetration.
2. Archaic. keen vision.


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[Origin: 1540-50; earlier perspicacite LL perspicacitas sharpness of
sight, equiv. to perspicaci- (s. of perspicax sharp-sighted; see
perspicuous) + -tas -ty2]


-Synonyms 1. shrewdness, acuity, astuteness, insight, acumen. See
perspicuity.
-Antonyms 1. obtuseness.
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noun
1. intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
[syn: shrewdness]
2. the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to
draw sound conclusions [syn: judgment]




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