Astronaut Training at Morehead Planetarium

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What you should know about Astronaut Training at Morehead Planetarium

...The first U.S. spacemen began their training at Langley Field, Virginia and the Morehead Planetarium was selected for teaching the Astronauts about the sky and the motions of objects in it. When the program began, there was little indication of just how complex these sessions would get, or how many years they would continue. At the first meeting of the Planetarium staff with the Astronauts most of the time was spent teaching celestial orientation and the recognition of stars and constellations. Later sessions included the appearance of the sky on specific missions and also elements related to the scientific experiments on these missions...