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First Man : The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. On July 20, 1969, a quiet, determined man from Wapakoneta, Ohio, stepped out of his fragile spacecraft and into history. Neil Armstrong--engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, astronaut and devoted family man--became the first man to walk on the moon. In this powerful, unrelenting biography of a man of no particularly spectacular talent yet who stands as a living testimony to everyday grit and determination, former NASA historian Hansen has achieved something quite remarkable. Like a rich pointillist painting, he has created a magnificent panorama of the second half of the American 20th century by assembling a multitude of luminescent moments in one man's life. From Armstrong's birth to a middle-class family in Ohio to the mind-boggling fame of the Apollo 11 triumph, and later his service on the commission investigating the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, Hansen details it all. He writes of the number of rounds of 20-millimeter ammunition loosed by Armstrong's fighter squadron in Korea in October 1951 (49,299), his heart rate on liftoff in Gemini VIII (146 beats per minute) and the price of a signed Armstrong letter at auction (

Who reads First Man : The Life of Neil A. Armstrong?

Author

James R. Hansen

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743256315

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Engineering

Rating

4.06 / 5 (95 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14