I recalled Wolfe's scene while reading one of the final anecdotes in Jay Barbree's admirably accessible new book, a biography of Neil Armstrong, who died at age 82 in 2012.At the conclusion of a ...

Neil Armstrong's kids still remember the day he walked on the moon Neil Armstrong was famously the first man to walk on the ...

Author of Neil Armstrong biography “First Man”: He understood “the place of humankind in the cosmos” ... Later in the program, they opened it up even more to include geologists.

Neil Armstrong and his cohorts were the rock stars of the Sixties, but it wasn’t always a smooth ride for their wives, writes author Lily Koppel.

The items aren't your usual souvenirs. — -- In the fall of 2012, after Neil Armstrong died that summer, his widow, Carol Armstrong, found a bag full of personal mementos from 1969's Apollo 11 ...

Neil Armstrong in the Lunar Module Eagle after walking on the moon, July 21, 1969. Armstrong would say later that he considered the landing a much greater challenge, and a greater accomplishment ...

Armstrong himself had flown [78] missions off carriers during the Korean War, and had done good work on the X-15." But by 1962 he had applied to join a new, fledgling endeavour – NASA's manned ...

'First Man' writer tells what Neil Armstrong was like in real life Not many people know much about the man behind the mission, but James Hansen does. Oct. 14, 2018, 5:52 AM EDT ...

Certainly it wasn't. But Armstrong's life, and his prominence as an ... Neil Armstrong’s biggest accomplishment was showing us ... then it was Armstrong who inspired the world eight years later.

James Hansen, author of the authoritative biography “First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong,” wrote in the book’s preface that Armstrong underwent the bypass surgery Aug. 6.