Landlocked - "I was only a ground tradesman"? No "only" about it - everybody had/has their job to do, from FJ pilot to cook!
Indeed so!!
I always remember the tale of Gus Grissom (IIRC) visiting a hangar (or NASA equivalent) at Cape Kennedy and talking to a bloke sweeping up.
GG: What do you do here?
Sweeper: I'm helping to put a man on the Moon! ......
...... and he was
