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NASA's first Space Shuttle astronaut selection : redefining the right stuff

David Shayler, Author ; Colin Burgess, Author | [S.l.] : Cham, Switzerland : Springer | Space Exploration | 2020

Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASA's Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space Shuttle. Prior to this time only pilots or sci[...]

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Research on vision-based hand gesture recognition for astronaut virtual training

Qingchao Xie, Author | Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University | 2020

To solve the problem of self-occlusion gesture recognition in astronaut virtual training, and provide a more natural virtual interactive training method for astronauts, this report discussed methods of hand pose estimation in astronaut virtual t[...]

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Prepare for launch : the astronaut training process

Erik Seedhouse | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2010

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