Contents: Vision in space travel--Criteria for laboratory experiments useful in field situations; Visual fitness for space travel; The effect of flash distribution and illuminance-level upon the detection of low intensity light stimuli; Langley Research Center simulators and studies related to space rendezvous and docking; Some Langley Research Center plans in the area of visual displays for lunar mission simulation; Visual masking using different test-stimulus patterns; Sextant sighting performance in the Ames midcourse navigation and guidance simulator; Comments on Major Gordon Cooper's observations from orbit; Gemini in-flight visual-acuity experiment. Flash blindness--Operational significance of the flash blindness problem; The nature of radiation from nuclear weapons in relation to flash blindness; Experimental investigations of the flash blindness problem; Methods of preventing flash blindness; Air Force efforts in the field of flash blindness; A flash blindness indoctrination and training device. Vision problems in low-altitude, high-speed flight--Geographic orientation during low-altitude flight; Dynamic visual detection recognition; Operational problems associated with low-altitude flight; Some operational aspects of visual problems in low-flying, high-speed aircraft.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Vision Research: Flying and Space Travel


    Contributors:
    M. A. Whitcomb (author) / W. Benson (author)

    Publication date :

    1968


    Size :

    203 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Vision in Space Travel

    N. Boyko / V. Popov | NTIS | 1967


    Vision in space travel

    Boyko, N. / Popov, V. | NTRS | 1967


    Vision-21: Space Travel for the Next Millennium

    Landis, Geoffrey A. | NTRS | 1990


    Flying is the safest way to travel

    John A. Stoop / James P. Kahan | DOAJ | 2005

    Free access