Moon Walker: How Neil Armstrong brought the space program down to earth.

Did anyone have the right to be so little changed by the voyage as Armstrong seems to have been? “How long must it take before I cease to be known as a spaceman?” he asked a reporter seven years after coming home. —Thomas Mallon reviews James R. Hansen’s First Man. —Moon Walker: How Neil Armstrong brought the space program down to earth. (The New Yorker)

Great, moody review of a book on one of my favorite subjects.

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