Post-war Academic Career
After the War, Roy conducted energetic independent study into physics and avionics. In 1951, he entered North Carolina State College at Raleigh to further pursue his dream, earning his baccalaureate degree in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering in 1955. He was discharged from the Air Force Reserve the same year. Roy would eventually attend Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia, in the midst of his NASA career, to acquire his masters degree in the same discipline.
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