VISION RESEARCH: FLYING AND SPACE TRAVEL
Abstract
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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0669266
Entities
People
- Milton A. Whitcomb
- William Benson