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Mitchell obtained a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He also has two Bachelor of Science degrees, one from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and one from Carnegie Mellon University. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the New Mexico State University, the University of Akron, Carnegie Mellon University and Embry-Riddle University . He began training at NASA in 1966 and served in the US Navy between 1953 and 1972.
Mitchell's academic interests include consciousness and paranormal phenomena. In early 1973Events January events January 1 United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community now known as the European Union January 3 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led, he founded the Institute of Noetic SciencesFounded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the Institute of Noetic Sciences explores the frontiers of consciousness through rigorous scientific research, bridges science and spirit, and seeks to support a fundamental shift in human consciousness to crea. The aim of the nonprofit Institute is to conduct and sponsor research into areas that mainstream science has ignored, including psychic events. As well as writing academic journals, Mitchell has written two books; Psychic Exploration (BooksEnthsiast.com) and The Way of the Explorer (BooksEnthsiast.com).
He is currently the Advisory Board Chairman of the Institute for Cooperation in SpaceThe Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS is a 501-C-3 tax-exempt, non-profit foundation whose mission is to educate decision makers and the grassroots about why space weapons must be banned. ICIS was created in 2001 by Dr. Carol Rosin, a former spokes, co-founded by Dr. Carol RosinCarol Rosin is an award-winning educator, author, leading aerospace executive and space and missile defense consultant. She is a former spokesperson for Wernher von Braun and has consulted to a number of companies, organizations, government departments an.
Mitchell has publicly expressed his opinions that "he is 90 per cent sure that many of the thousands of unidentified flying objectUFO or unidentified flying object in the original, literal sense means any airborne object whose nature is not readily known. Nowadays, the term is generally used to mean those cases that are believed by some to be the spaceships of extraterrestrial aliens, or UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets" [1] and that UFO's have been the "subject of disinformationDisinformation in the context of espionage, military intelligence, and propaganda, is the spreading of deliberately false information to mislead an enemy as to one's position or course of action. Disinformation techniques may also be found in commerce and in order to deflect attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out." [2]