Dear Neil Armstrong / Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics (ePub)
In the years between the historic first moon
landing by Apollo 11 on July 20,
1969, and his death at age 82 on August 25, 2012, Neil Armstrong received
hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world,
congratulating him,...
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In the years between the historic first moon
landing by Apollo 11 on July 20,
1969, and his death at age 82 on August 25, 2012, Neil Armstrong received
hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world,
congratulating him, praising him, requesting pictures and autographs, and
asking him what must have seemed to him to be limitless-and occasionally
intrusive-questions. Of course, all the famous astronauts received fan mail,
but the sheer volume Armstrong had to deal with for more than four decades
after his moon landing was staggering.
Today, the preponderance of those letters-some 75,000 of them-are preserved in the archives at
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man on the Moon publishes
a careful sampling of these letters-roughly 400-reflecting the various kinds of
correspondence that Armstrong received along with representative samples of his
replies. Selected and edited by James R. Hansen, Armstrong's authorized
biographer and author of the New York
Times best seller First Man: The Life
of Neil A. Armstrong, this collection sheds light on Armstrong's enduring impact and offers an intimate glimpse into
the cultural meanings of human spaceflight. Readers will explore what the
thousands of letters to Neil Armstrong meant not only to those who wrote them, but
as a snapshot of one of humankind's greatest achievements in the twentieth
century. They will see how societies and cultures projected their own meanings
onto one of the world's great heroes and iconic figures.
R. Hansen is professor emeritus of history at Auburn University in Alabama. An
expert in aerospace history and the history of science and technology, Hansen
has published a dozen books and numerous articles covering a wide variety of
topics, including the early days of aviation, the history of aerospace
engineering, NASA, the moon landings, the Space Shuttle program, and China's
role in space. His book First Man,
which is the only authorized biography of Neil Armstrong, spent three weeks as
a New York Times best seller in 2005
and 2018, and garnered a number of major book awards, including a nomination
for a Pulitzer Prize. Translations of First
Man have been published in over twenty languages. A Universal Studios film
adaptation of the book hit the silver screen in October 2018, with Academy
Award winner Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
directing the film and actor Ryan Gosling starring as Armstrong. Hansen served
as coproducer for the film.
Over the years Hansen has served on a number of
important advisory boards and panels, including the Research Advisory Board for
the National Air and Space Museum, Editorial Advisory Board for the Smithsonian
Institution Press, and Advisory Board for the Archives of Aerospace Exploration
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He also is a past vice president
of the Virginia Air and Space Museum in Hampton, Virginia. For the past ten
years he has served on the National Air and Space Museum Trophy Selection
Board. His experience as an academic and public speaker has been wide-ranging both
topically and geographically; he frequently serves as keynote speaker,
panelist, and lecturer on a wide variety of topics in the history of science
and technology.
- 2019, 400 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: James R. Hansen
- Verlag: Purdue University Press
- ISBN-10: 1612496032
- ISBN-13: 9781612496030
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.2019
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