In 1971, American astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, conducted unauthorized experiments in telepathy while in outer space.
In an article on June 22, 1971, in The New York Times, the astronaut revealed that “four persons on Earth participated in the extrasensory perception (ESP) experiment he conducted during the Apollo 14 flight to the moon.”
He used the symbols of the Zener cards used by Dr. J.B. Rhine of Duke University in his experiments: the star, square, wave, cross and circle.
While in outer space, Mitchell mentally projected the symbols to the four people. Two of the four got 51 of the 200 correct, and the other two were less successful. Chance w…
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