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Armstron 6 has received many awards and honors including the
Octave Chanute Award_ the Collier Trophy_ the Thomas White Trophy,
the Presidential Medal for Freedom, the National Civil Service
League Award_ and the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal.
Armstrong was born August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He
attended local schools, received a bachelor of science in aeronautical
engineering from Purdue University in 1955 and master of science in
aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California in
1970. He is married to the former Janet Shearon of Evanston, Ill.
The Armstrongs have two children.
Harper joined the NASA Ames Research Center in 1941 and, successively_
became Assistant Chief of the 7x10' Wind Tunnel Branch_ and Systems
Research Division until transferring to Headquarters in October 1964
as Director of the Aeronautical Vehicles Division.
He became Deputy Associate Administrator (Aeronautics) in the
Office of Advanced Research and Technology on May 3_ 1967 when the
office was created.
Harper was born in Winnipeg, Canada, Sept. 24_ 1913_ and became
a United States citizen in 1941. He graduated from the University
of California, Berkeley, in 1941 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering
(Aeronautics
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