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Project Gemini and providing voice commentary during the Gemini missions. Served as deputy public affairs officer of NASA Manned Spaceflight Center. By 1971, Chop has risen to the post of manager of the motivation
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Marines around 1943; He served as a state-side correspondent during World War 2 and left the service in 1946. After the war, Chop became Press Chief for Air Materiel Command in Dayton, Ohio. Starting in 1951, he spent two years at the Air Force press desk at the Pentagon. He left the
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University of Dayton. He met future wife, Delores Henderson, and began work in the Wire Photo Department of the Cleveland News, before transferring to Dayton and working as a reporter there.
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February 1953 for Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, a post he held from 1953 to 1962. In 1956, Chop was played by actor Tom Towers in the film
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