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Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Media Tie-In edition (October 18, 2005)
Publication Date: October 18, 2005
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Language: English
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I've read the biographies of most of the other astronauts and "celebrities" of NASA/NACA (Chris Kraft, Guenter Wendt, Gene Kranz etc) during the Mercury/Gemini and Apollo years so was quite looking forward to reading this biography on Neil Armstrong.Unfortunately it turned out to be a tough read and quite boring in places. The first few chapters deals with Neils family and ancestors with the author going back generations to Neil's Scottish ancestry. Whilst it would be ok to give a brief summary of Neils immediate family, I didn't see the need nor the point in going back so many generations.The book is written by a professor at Auburn University and it reads not like a normal biography but more like a scientific study/university textbook. If you want to know virtually every person that has interracted with Neil Armstrong over the years then this book has them. Most of them the reader really doesn't need to know about however.Later in the book, once the author takes us to Gemini 8 and the Apollo moon landing, the reading gets better but these chapters, the ones people are probably most interested in, cover only around 1/3 of the content of the book. More emphasis is given to Neils family history and what Neil has done since leaving NASA than to the actual meat of what most people would like to know, the actual first moon landing itself.Unfortunately out of all the biographies/auto-biographies of the NASA astronauts, the one that should have been the most interesting is the most dull.If you are looking for a good biography on the Apollo 11 flight, get Collins book instead. Although there is a lot of very interesting information in this book and I learned quite a bit about Neil that I didn't know, I find it hard to recommend this book.
Neil Armstrong was one of my boyhood heroes...how cool would it be to be the first man on the moon? I looked forward to reading this biography, and it finally made it to the top of my "to-read" list.=== The Good Stuff ===* James Hansen evidently had pretty good access to Armstrong. He had a wealth of personal, family and professional history, including the occasional glimpse behind the scenes. There are a few interesting tidbits and some bone-headed maneuvers throughout the years, all of which make the man "more human".* Armstrong was evidently a very private man, and very careful about what parts of his thoughts and personality were going to be available for public discussion. Occasionally Hansen succeeds in penetrating this stoic front and capturing glimpses of Armstrong's thoughts. For example, he explains multiple times that he was not at all disappointed or angered that crew-companion Edwin Aldrin never took a picture of him while on the moon. He says multiple times that it was just the way the time-line of the moon walk worked out, and he is sure there was no "revenge" factor because Aldrin didn't get to step out of the LEM first. He repeats himself, again and again. It is not hard to get the feeling that it is something that has bothered him all these years, but he is too professional to admit.* The book is certainly detailed. (See more thoughts below). Hansen carefully builds a portrait of Armstrong based on his personal, professional and military career of a man cool and calm under pressure, and capable of thinking his way through problems when all the alarm buzzers are flashing red. He relates a story of where Armstrong had baled out of a plane, nearly killing himself, early in the morning. Coworkers found him working at his desk that afternoon as if nothing had happened.* The latter parts of the book, from about the time of the Gemini launches, were much better than the beginning, and held my interest. Even the explanations of his "reclusive" behavior later in life were also very revealing and captivating.=== The Not-So-Good Stuff ===* NASA was a great believer in weight reduction, and this book could have used some of that skill. I have no interest in Armstrong's medieval ancestors, and I have strong doubts about records that old anyway. Likewise, I really don't care that his Mother made her own wedding cake, or that it was "an iced angel food cake in three graduated layers ornamented with rosebuds and garlands". The book is full of such detail, although at least in latter parts of the book the detail actually concerns the subject. It is almost as if the author was determined to use every scrap of information he could find about Armstrong, interesting or not.* Similarly, Hansen could have added details which might not have been directly available. For example, a number of times the text mentions the problem of "roll coupling", an aerodynamic problem of high speed flight in which the inertia of an aircraft overcomes the counter-effects of its control surfaces (thanks, Google). But while the book went on for pages and pages about Armstrong's Mother's favorite teacher, it couldn't devote a paragraph or two to a phenomenon that almost killed Armstrong, twice.* By about the first ten pages, I was sick of hearing about his Mother and her religious fervor. Enough already.=== Summary ===There is a lot to like about this book, but an almost equal amount to dislike. I came very close to putting the book down for good during the first 100 pages or so, but glad I kept at it, because it definitely improved as it went on. The author genuinely seemed to like Armstrong, which is fine, but seemed to let that cloud his analysis of some of the personal and professional conflicts in Neil's life. You could almost feel Hansen taking Armstrong's side in a few conflicts.Overall, I'd recommend it to fans of the space program, but with the caveat that it is OK to skip over entire sections of the text without missing anything interesting or important.
Neil Armstrong was never one to rush into anything and it took two full years for him to fully vet Professor James Hansen as his biographer. We are the beneficiaries of Neil's well considered decision to select Hansen to tell his story.Hansen conducted 55 hours of extensive taped interviews with Armstrong and was granted unparalleled access to his family and friends. The product is a detailed, accurate, and extensive chronicle of Armstrong throughout every phase of his life. Boyhood aviation enthusiast, Naval Aviator, test pilot, astronaut, family man, and historical icon; they are all here.Authorized biographies can sometimes turn into hagiographic, and sanitized versions of the actual subject, but not here. Neil is portrayed as he was perceived by his friends and coworkers, warts and all. He was a quiet and often guarded individual whose disciplined engineering personality was well suited to the sometimes harrowing professions of test pilot and astronaut, but perhaps not so well suited to the role of spouse.Hansen plumbs the depths of one America's greatest, misunderstood, and most reluctant heroes better than any author. First Man will stand as the definitive character study of our time's greatest historical figure.
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