An intimate portrait of America’s most famous astronaut
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
By Jay Barbree
Hardcover, 364 pages
$27.99 / Kindle edition $12.74 (July 8, Thomas Dunne Books)
Barbree, an Emmy-winning broadcaster and space reporter, was also a longtime friend of America’s most famous astronaut, the first person to walk on the moon. His richly detailed profile of Armstrong, who died in 2012, is timed to coincide with the 45th anniversary of his subject’s historic 1969 mission and covers Armstrong’s life and career with intimacy, humor and heart, from his days as a U.S. Navy pilot through his training for the NASA space program, and ultimately into the commander’s seat of Apollo 11. Space hounds and history buffs will dig it, for sure, but even casual readers will be riveted by its comprehensive portrait of a real-life cosmic cowboy who broke the bonds of Earth and put the first American footprint where it had never been before.
—Neil Pond, American Profile Magazine
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