First Man on the Moon
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After three semesters at Purdue University, Neil Armstrong was called by the US Navy to active duty as the Cold war was looming where the US military would need more pilots (27).... During his assignment in the Korean war, as a pilot, Neil Armstrong's tales of heroism can be likened to a Tom Clancy novel being ranked among the top guns in the Pacific Fleet piloting Grumman F9F-2 Panther missions (Brinkley 30).... After his stint at the Korean war as a pilot from 1949 to 1952, Neil Armstrong joined NACA or the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA, where he performed multifaceted functions as an “engineer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator for NACA and its successor agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration” (Dunbar)....