NEIL ARMSTRONG & NASA - TOGETHER PERPETUATE MOON LANDING MYTH & DECEPTION
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Historian Douglas Brinkley calls him "our nation's most bashful
Galahad."
Author James Hansen has opened the door to Armstrong's life a little
wider with "First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong." He recorded more
than 50 hours of interviews with Armstrong and talked with about 125
family members, friends and associates.
[WHY IS NEIL ARMSTRONG VERY PRIVATE / SECRETIVE]
Armstrong, 75, had rejected numerous requests to write his biography.
The astronaut who once called himself a "nerdy engineer" finally
accepted a proposal from Hansen, a history professor at Auburn
University and a former NASA historian who talks his language.
Hansen said his plan for the book and his credentials helped him earn
Armstrong's trust.
[WHY IS NEIL ARMSTRONG NOT HUMANISTIC?]
"He can elaborate at length on technical issues," Hansen said. "When it
comes to issues that are more involving personalities or human
relationships, that's never been a great focus even from the time he
was a boy."
[WHY IS THERE SUCH ECCENTRIC ODDITY ABOUT PROCESS OF BOOK PUBLISHING
DISPAYED BY NEIL ARMSTRONG?]
Hansen said Armstrong quietly spread the word that it was OK for
friends and associates to talk freely; that Armstrong read drafts of
the book but did not demand approval rights; that he and Armstrong drew
up a contract without involving lawyers; and that Armstrong will not
personally benefit from the book.
['WHAT WOULD THEY SAY' HAD NEIL ARMSTRONG KEPT AVOIDING THE
PARTNERED BOOK?]
Armstrong's share of profits will go to his alma mater, Purdue
University, for a space program archive.
Hansen pitched the project to Armstrong in 1999. Interviews began in
2001, and the book went on sale Oct. 18. Publisher Simon & Schuster
said that more than 113,000 copies are in print.
"Readers have been eager to learn more about Neil Armstrong for years,"
said associate publisher Aileen Boyle. "As soon as the manuscript was
complete, we published it as soon as possible."
[WHAT IS NEIL ARMSTRONG HIDING - "NEVER FELT COMFORTABLE" MEETING
PRESS, WRITERS & PUBLIC?]
Armstrong has never felt comfortable with his celebrity, generated by a
moon walk seen by a worldwide television audience estimated at 1
billion.
"Friends and colleagues, all of a sudden, looked at us, treated us
slightly differently than they had months or years before when we were
working together," he told "60 Minutes" in a recent interview. "I never
quite understood that."
[WHY DOES NEIL ARMSTRONG RIGOUROUSLY PUT HEAVY DEMANDS ?]
Although CBS and Simon & Schuster, both owned by Viacom, encouraged
Armstrong to do the interview, he agreed to it only as a favor to the
author, Hansen said. A spokeswoman for the publisher said Armstrong is
refusing all other requests.
[NEIL ARMSTRONG FEARS SQUEALING ABOUT THE MOON HOAX IN UNSCRIPTED
REMARKS]
One of the reasons may be that Armstrong, a perfectionist, doesn't like
the way he comes off in unscripted remarks. He gave his performance on
"60 Minutes" a grade of C-minus, Hansen said.
[WITNESSES SAY NEIL ARMSTRONG "REMOTE" TO THEM]
In appearances just before and after the moon walk, Armstrong often
seemed remote, even boring. Author Norman Mailer, who was interested in
doing an Armstrong biography, wrote that Armstrong answered questions
"with his characteristic mixture of modesty and technical arrogance, of
apology and tightlipped superiority."
[THE SECRETIVE CHARACTER OF NEIL ARMSTRONG & A SECRET PROJECT - THE
PERFECT MATCH]
Maybe, Hansen suggests, it was that remoteness, that ice
water-in-the-veins quality, that made Armstrong the perfect choice to
be the first man on the moon.
[THE SECRET PROJECT THAT SPOILT BEIL ARMSTRONG'S FAMILY LIFE]
But those qualities also kept him from close family relationships.
Hansen's book offers the most candid look yet at situations Armstrong
had never discussed - painful events, such as the death of his
2-year-old daughter, Karen, of brain cancer in 1962, his lack of
participation while his sons were growing up and his divorce from his
first wife, Janet, after 38 years.
Hansen came to know Armstrong in a way the public hasn't seen.
["SUSPECT" !]
"He can be very sociable, very engaging," Hansen said. "He can almost
be the life of the party. You would not suspect that."
[NEIL ARMSTRONG'S 'FALSE EGO']
Armstrong doesn't see himself as a recluse, though. He makes numerous
appearances and presentations at aerospace conventions and other forums
that interest him. He took questions from the audience at one such
meeting in Malaysia in September, offering these thoughts on manned
flight to Mars.
[TAXATION, OUTSOURCING & GLOBALIZATION]
"It will be expensive, it will take a lot of energy and a complex
spacecraft," Armstrong said. "But I suspect that even though the
various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and
many as those we faced when we started the Apollo (program) in 1961."
[NASA & NEIL ARMSTRONG'S FALSE PROPAGANDA WORKS ]
Hansen's book has been generally well received. At book signings in
Ohio, where Armstrong grew up, there were large crowds, heavy - in a
discouraging way, Hansen felt - in the demographic that saw the moon
walk on television.
"It's all from the generation that participated in it," Hansen said.
"There are very few young people coming."
He noted that two-thirds of the world's population was not alive in
1969.
[BOOK PERPETUATES THE MYTH & DECEPTION OF MOON LANDING]
"I wrote the book for posterity, even more so than for folks today,"
Hansen said. "I wanted a complete history, a complete record to be
there for future generations. Some reviewers have criticized the book
for being too detailed. If that's the biggest mistake I made, so be
it."
Publishers Weekly reveled in Hansen's attention to detail, such as
Armstrong's heart rate during liftoff (146 beats a minute) and what a
signed Armstrong letter fetched at auction ($2,500). "Rather than
overwhelming, this accumulation of details gives flesh-and-blood
reality to a man who is more icon than human," PW noted.
Brinkley, writing for The New York Times, praised Hansen's effort as
"brimming with groundbreaking research, fresh anecdotes and fair-minded
analysis."
"If nothing else, Hansen should be commended for decoding the enigmatic
Armstrong: a space hero short on words but sky-high on Midwestern
integrity," Brinkley wrote.
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