First Man

First Man

by James R. Hansen
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On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch 38-year-old American astronaut Neil A.

Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body.

Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few he uttered.

First published
2005
Publishers
Simon & Schuster
Subjects
Project apollo space flight to the moon·Armstrong·Neil·1930-2012astronauts·Air pilots·Biography

James R. Hansen

About James R. Hansen

James R. Hansen is a professor of history at Auburn University in Alabama.His book From the Ground Up won the History Book Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1988. For his work, The Wind and Beyond (NASA) - (six-volume series), he was awarded the Eugene Ferguson Prize for Outstanding Reference Work by the Society for the History of Technology in 2005....

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