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First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong

'Let it be said at once that his book is an outstanding success. It has been immaculately researched and is packed with detail, but written in a way that will appeal to readers of all kinds...this is an important book, and should be in every scientific library.'

– Sir Patrick Moore, Times Higher Educational Supplement

‘The man was a fine engineer, a good pilot – although there is some dispute about that – patriotic, cool, courageous and hard-working, just the sort of guy you want next to you when the chips are down.'

– Sunday Times

'Although he was the first man to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong has always been the least public of the Apollo 11 astronauts. He has seldom given interviews, or lent his name to merchandising tat, or haunted the same professional old-boy circuit as his former colleagues... But at 75, he’s finally decided to break his silence - or to have it broken for him by his official biographer, James R.Hansen.’

– Sunday Telegraph

'To understand Armstrong on his own terms is to see a large truth of our t

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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

January 17, 2009

What gall we must have to ask a child what he would be when he grows up! Here he is, tearing along in the delirious hallucination of childhood and we would already have him fill out the box, sign on the line, put the cube in the square hole; we would confront him with this terrible hunt for purpose and significance in the material, have him genuflect before the idol of maturity in activity, the sequestration of occupation in industry!

But when I was a kid that question -- of the many on old folks' checklist of generic questions for grade-schoolers -- rarely bothered me. I always just answered that I would be a writer/teacher/astronaut/architect/treasure-hunter/tree-house-builder/rich-person, and that seemed to satisfy the elderly without putting too many constraints on me.

No, the question that bothered me was always: "and who are your heros, kiddo?" (Old folks' questions to youngsters are always sandwiched between a conjunction and a diminutive epithet.) Because I didn't have any heroes! The most popular answers amongs

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Neil Armstrong

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)

For other uses, see Neil Armstrong (disambiguation).

Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.

Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He entered Purdue University, studying aeronautical engineering, with the U.S. Navy paying his tuition under the Holloway Plan. He became a midshipman in 1949 and a naval aviator the following year. He saw action in the Korean War, flying the Grumman F9F Panther from the aircraft carrierUSS Essex. After the war, he completed his bachelor's degree at Purdue and became a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was the project pilot on Century Series fighters and flew the North American X-15 seven times. He was also a participant in the U.S. Air Force's Man in Space Soon