Castruccio, Peter Adelbert (1925-)
Castruccio, Peter Adelbert (1925-)
Engineer, space technologist, and former director of Westinghouse's Astronautics Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born January 11, 1925, in New York and studied at the University of Genoa, Italy, and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He had a distinguished career in such fields as space communications, space navigation, electrical rocketry, and space technology. Castruccio investigated telepathy and clairvoyance and the possible use of ESP in relation to astronautics.
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