Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pilot School...
...Cambridge, the new program operates a pilot school-a school-within-a-school-at the Rindge Technical High School. The school consists of 60 ninth graders intended to represent a cross-section of the Cambridge student population, high school teachers, several Harvard faculty members, and six Harvard doctoral students...
...pilot school proposal, accepted by the Cambridge School Committee, warns that "the events of recent months at colleges and high schools across the country show that if we ignore student voices, we do so at some risk." The new school aims at increasing student participation in decision-making which affects their lives...
...bubble brushes another's, it triggers successive alarms in both cockpits. The first comes 42 seconds before the moment of collision as calculated by the CAS's onboard computers. If the planes are still headed toward each other at 30 seconds, a flashing red light warns the pilots to prepare for evasive action. Five seconds later, the computers issue their final command. Depending on the relative positions of their planes, one pilot may be ordered to climb, the other to dive or stay level...
...astronaut corps two years ago to train young scientists for field work on the moon and for the earth-orbit missions of the Apollo Applications Program. Not one scientist-astronaut has been assigned to the prime or back-up crews of the next 3 Apollo missions, while several test pilot astronauts, among them aging Alan Shepard, have been slated for their second, third or even fourth space flights. Four of the 17 scientists in this program have quit, and so have the director of science at the Manned Spacecraft Center, the chief scientist in the Office of Lunar Explorations...