记录尼尔•阿姆斯特朗（他的“一小步”改变了历史）的**本也是**一本最完整可靠的、得到授权的书籍。

当阿波罗11号于1969年在月球表面着陆时，这个登上月球的**人成了一个传奇人物。在《登月**人》中，作者James R. Hansen探讨了尼尔•阿姆斯特朗的生平。根据对这个非常内向的阿姆斯特朗长达五十五个多小时的采访（阿姆斯特朗还**授权Hansen查看他的私人文件和家族根源），这个“描绘美国20世纪下半叶的宏伟全景”（ 《出版商周刊》）是一本无与伦比的美国偶像传记。

在这幅充满真相的“引人入胜和细致入微的肖像”（ 《芝加哥论坛报》）中，Hansen生动地再现了阿姆斯特朗的飞行生涯。自登月以来近五十年，阿姆斯特朗一直被关于他太空旅行梦想、宗教信仰和私生活的传言所包围。

作为对美国英雄崇拜的一次深刻探讨，Hansen论述了作为宇航员和个人的”**人”的复杂遗留问题。

Soon to be a major motion picture, this is the first--and only--

definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose "one small step" changed history.

When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon's surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R. Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over fifty hours of interviews with the intensely private Armstrong, who also gave Hansen exclusive access to private documents and family sources, this "magnificent panorama of the second half of the American twentieth century" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is an unparalleled biography of an American icon.

In this "compelling and nuanced portrait" (Chicago Tribune) filled with revelations, Hansen vividly recreates Armstrong's career in flying, from his seventy-

eight combat missions as a naval aviator flying over North Korea to his formative trans-atmospheric flights in the rocket-powered X-15 to his piloting Gemini VIII to the first-ever docking in space. For a pilot who cared more about flying to the Moon than he did about walking on it, Hansen asserts, Armstrong's storied vocation exacted a dear personal toll, paid in kind by his wife and children. For the near-

fifty years since the Moon landing, rumors have swirled around Armstrong concerning his dreams of space travel, his religious beliefs, and his private life.

A penetrating exploration of American hero worship, Hansen addresses the complex legacy of the First Man, as an astronaut and as an individual. "First Man burrows deep into Armstrong's past and present...What emerges is an earnest and brave man" (Houston Chronicle) who will forever be known as history's most famous space traveler.