The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 21, Milford, Kosciusko County, 25 June 1969 — Page 20

THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., June 25, 1969

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Neil Armstrong To Be First Mon On Moon

Neil A. Armstrong, Purdue aeronautical engineering graduate of 1955, will command man’s greatest venture into the unknown when Apollo 11 blasts away from earth’s surface, probably July 16. As commander, he will descend to the moon’s surface in the lunar landing module and will be the first man to touch foot on the moon’s surface. Crewman Col. Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin is scheduled to be the second, under present plans. Armstrong, a native of Wapakoneta, Ohio, and a civilian, already has several space firsts. As a member of the exclusive “Purdue Space Club” — Purdue graduates deeply involved in the nation’s space program — Armstrong was first to rendezvous with an unmanned space vehicle as commander of Gemini 8. He also was first to dock two spacecraft in flight and also was first to make an emergency landing, also in Gemini 8. He was also the first civilian to make a space flight. At Purdue, he was a member of the student chapter of the American Rocket Society; president of the Aero Club, a student flying organization; a student member of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences; a member of the Purdue University Military Band and of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity. He is married to the former Janet E. Shearon of Evanston, Hl., who was studying in Purdue’s School of Home Economics when they met. The Armstrongs, now living in Seabrook, Texas, have two young sons, Eric, 11, and Mark, 5. “Interested in flying as far back as I can remember,” Armstrong took his first flight in an old Ford tri-motor at the age of six and spent many boyhood hours building model airplanes. “By working at various retail stores, I gradually built up a fund for my college education, but I couldn’t avoid spending part of this money for flight lessons. I often hitch-hiked to the airport to fly after work. I earned my pilot’s license on the day I became 16, even before I received a driver’s license,” he is quoted as saying. A naval aviator in the Korean conflict, Armstrong flew 78 missions and was awarded the Air Medal with clusters. He joined NASA after receiving his Purdue degree and was assigned to what is now the Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California. As a project pilot, he flew and worked with the F-100, F-101, F-102, F-104, B-47 X-l and X-15, the latter which he flew to an altitude of

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/I . jMgC I 38 miles in April 1962, the second highest the X-15 had been rocketed at that time. In June 1962, Armstrong was awarded the Octave Chanute Award of the Institute of Aerospace Sciences for “outstanding contributions in both engineering and piloting capacity in the development of an experimental adaptive control system and in the flight testing of that system in the X-15 aircraft.” He whs named among six Purdue graduates listed in the 1966 edition of “Outstanding Young Men of America.” Armstrong, born August 5, 1930, is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was a member of the group of pilot-consultants on the NASA Dyna-Soar project until he joined the manned space program as its first civilian astronaut in 1962. “When ‘Deke’ Slayton phoned me with the glad tidings that I had been selected as an astronaut, I was already convinced that Gemini and Apollo were the routes to the moon and beyond. I was completely satisfied I had made the right choice. I still am,” he says. Among other former or presently active Purdue graduates in the space program are: —Eugene A. Cernan, 1956 electrical engineering graduate, a spacewalker on the Gemini 9 mission and crewman aboard Apollo 10. He was out of the Gemini 9 capsule for two hours, a record spacewalk at that time. —Charles C. Bock, Jr., a 1949 aeronautical engineering graduate who has been selected for Air Force training designed to qualify him for future aerospace trips, including the X-15 and manned space glider flights. —Henry C. Gordon, 1950 aeronautical engineering graduate, a test pilot in the Air Force and a member of the old Dyna-Soar

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—Air Force Maj. William J. Knight, who studied at Purdue’s Indianapolis Campus in 1949-50, X-15 test pilot who took the plane to a record speed in the summer of 1968. He earned astronaut wings for the feat. —Dr. G. E. Mueller (pronounced Millpr), who earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1940, is NASA's associate administrator for manned space flight. —Dr. Donald Stullken, head of the NASA recovery operations branch at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. He did research and taught biology at Purdue in 1949-54 and earned the master’s and Ph.d. degrees at Purdue. —Warren J. North, 1947 aeronautical engineering graduate who heads NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center flight crew support division. —Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, was deputy manager of the Gemini program office and manager of Project Mercury. He is a 1942 graduate in mechanical engineering. —Malcolm D. Ross, former West Lafayette resident and 1941 graduate of the School of Science, made record balloon trips into space for the navy. —Three Purdue graduates have died in space - related activities. They are:

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Lt. Col. Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, the first man to make two space flights — in the suborbital Mercury and orbiting Gemini programs. He died in the January, 1967, fire at Cape Kennedy while training for the first manned Apollo mission. Grissom has been honored by Purdue in scholarships for his four children, one of whom, Scott, 18, already has enrolled. The Board of Trustees also has named a building housing the School of Aeronautics, Astronautics and Engineering Sciences for him. He was graduated in 1950 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Lt. Cdr. Roger B. Chaffee, a 1957 graduate in aeronautical engineering, also died in the Apollo fire with Grissom. He was preparing for his first space flight. Purdue has named its main building at the Jet Propulsion Center as Chaffee Hall and established full expense scholarship for his son Steven, 7. In addition, the Astronauts Scholarship Fund has been established in memory of both Grissom and Chaffee. Donations from all over the nation provided seed-money for the fund which makes scholarships available for any worthy, well - qualified students. Capt. Iven (cq) C. Kincheloe, Jr., a 1949 aeronautical engineering graduate, died in a plane crash after several ex-

ploits in experimental aircraft related to space work. He <nce set a world altitude record of 126,000 feet in the Bell X-2, a predecessor of the X-15 rocket plane.

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s^ S Welcomes you to NORTH WEBSTER and the 24th Mermaid Festival LARRY SPRY

14 Teams Are Entered In Basketball Competition

A tqtal of 14 teams are entered in the Mermaid Festival basketball competition at North Webster with games being played on the outdoor basketball court at the school beginning at 7 p.m. each evening. The finals are set for Friday. Entered are the Wawasee Chieftains with Jerry Minton as manager; Weldy Paints, Jerry Weldy; Akron Exchange State Bank, Jeff McFarland; Cooley’s D-X, Don Cooley; Mr. Happy Burger of Logansport, Charles Talbott; Rosenbaum Clothiers, Al Carter; Travelmaster, Fred Hershberger; Clunette CobCrushers, John Stookey; Donnelley’s Team, Jim Conway; Black’s Sales, Neal Graff; Swathwood Floor Service, Er J. Swathwood; Plumbs Blue and Gold Bombers, Bob Merz and Bill Kummer; Mar-Max Tasty Freeze, Michael W. McCoy; and Plymouth Club Bombers, Kerry Clevenger.

‘Day On Campus* Program At Purdue This Summer WEST LAFAYETTE - Getting a jump on registration procedures in the fall, more than 4,000 Purdue university freshmen will attend the summer “day on campus” program. This is the 16th year Purdue has conducted preregistration during the summer. Scheduled for a four-week period, June 23 to July 18, up to 300

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students and their parents will visit the campus each day. Besides a general briefing on his academic school, each student will line up his fall semester courses with the help of an academic counselor. He’ll receive his class schedule after paying his fees in late August or early September. Last summer, 4,577 new students went through the advance enrollment procedure, representing 86.3 per cent of all new students. This saved them an extra four days of registration preceding orientation. This fall, orientation starts September 7, and classes begin Sep tember 10.