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Topic: Document: Job description for Mercury Astronaut
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 43576 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-10-2013 05:18 PM
The National Archives Today's Document tumblr recently featured the "Position Description for Mercury Astronaut." Duties: Participates in indoctrination, developmental research, and pre-flight training programs under conditions simulating flight profiles of the type expected to be encountered with Project Mercury. Operates and/or observes fixed-base and moving-base simulator tests, serves as subject-under-test, and assists in the analysis of date for the evaluation and development of various boosters and of communication, telemetry, display, vehicle-control, environmental-control and other systems involved in launch, atmospheric escape, orbital flight, reentry, landing and recovery. Participates in specialized training exercises such as centrifuge programs to build up tolerances to the motions and forces associated with launch, flight without gravity, and atmospheric reentry, and to develop proficiency and confidence for vehicle operation under such conditions. | |
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