First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

by James R. Hansen

On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few he uttered at that historic moment. In a penetrating exploration of American hero worship, Hansen addresses the complex legacy of the First Man, as an astronaut and an individual.

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Space, History, Science, Audiobook, Biography Memoir

784 pages, Paperback

First published June 27, 2005

About the author

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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