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Reviewed on April 26, 2004
Some astronauts are born interesting; others have interestingness thrust upon them. Neil Armstrong is one of the latter, to judge by this engaging, if reverent, biography. Journalist Wagener covers the life of the first man on the moon from his all-American boyhood dreaming of space flight, through his service as a Korean war fighter pilot and his grueling NASA training regimen, to his reluctant post-moonshot celebrity and later career as an engineering professor and aer...Log In or Sign Up to Read More