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Corps aviator and a veteran of the advanced aircraft testing program washington spared no expense in its competition with moscow to conquer space. so officials started making crew assignments for future missions to the moon this program was called apollo among the candidates were james lovell. james mcdevitt. john young. and frank borman. in june 1902 neil armstrong applied to become an astronaut. at this point in his life armstrong was trying to cope with a very serious personal tragedy. his 2 year old daughter karen died of a brain tumor in january $962.00. armstrong dealt with his grief by ...

Mcdevitt. john young. and frank borman. in june 1902 neil armstrong applied to become an astronaut. at this point in his life armstrong was trying to cope with a very serious personal tragedy. his 2 year old daughter karen died of a brain tumor in january $962.00. armstrong dealt with his grief by working harder than ever before. on september 17th 1962 armstrong was introduced as one of the 9 astronauts he was one of 2 civilians in the group the rest were active military pilots these men would take part in the gemini program which would feature a 2 manned spacecraft. that