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Neil Armstrong FIRST MAN ON THE MOON N A S A / S C IE N C E S O U FAR FROM HOME RC E Earth rises over the moon, /G E as seen from Apollo 11. TT Y EYES ON THE PRIZE Neil Armstrong in a 1964 training session. Neil Armstrong First Man on the Moon EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Kostya Kennedy EDITORS Robert Sullivan, Courtney Mifsud (2018 Edition) DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Barbara Baker Burrows CREATIVE DIRECTOR Mimi Park DEPUTY PICTURE EDITOR Christina Lieberman COPY EDITORS Barbara Gogan, Don Armstrong, Parlan McGaw WRITER-REPORTERS Marilyn Fu, Amy Lennard Goehner PHOTO EDITOR Rachel Hatch (2018 Edition) PHOTO ASSOCIATE Sarah Cates PHOTO ASSISTANT Steph Durante (2018 Edition) PRODUCTION Richard Shaffer TIME INC. BOOKS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCE Anthony Palumbo VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING Jeremy Biloon DIRECTOR, BRAND MARKETING Jean Kennedy SALES DIRECTOR Christi Crowley ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, BRAND MARKETING Bryan Christian ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, FINANCE Jill Earyes SENIOR MANAGER, FINANCE Ashley Petrasovic SENIOR BRAND MANAGER Katherine Barnet EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Kostya Kennedy CREATIVE DIRECTOR Gary Stewart DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Christina Lieberman EDITORIAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Jamie Roth Major MANAGER, EDITORIAL OPERATIONS Gina Scauzillo SPECIAL THANKS Brad Beatson, Melissa Frankenberry, Kristina Jutzi, Kate Roncinske MEREDITH NATIONAL MEDIA GROUP PRESIDENT Jon Werther MEREDITH MAGAZINES PRESIDENT Doug Olson PRESIDENT, MEREDITH DIGITAL Stan Pavlovsky PRESIDENT, CONSUMER PRODUCTS Tom Witschi CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER Michael Brownstein 4 INTRODUCTION CHIEF MARKETING & DATA Officer Alysia Borsa MARKETING & INTEGRATED Communications Nancy Weber The Man Who Leapt SENIOR VICE PRESIDENTS CONSUMER REVENUE Andy Wilson DIGITAL SALES Marla Newman A Movie Mission 6 RESEARCH SOLUTIONS Britta Cleveland PRODUCT & TECHNOLOGY Justin Law CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER Matt Minoff 8 CHAPTER ONE VICE PRESIDENTS T he Armstrong I Saw FINANCE Chris Susil BUSINESS PLANNING & ANALYSIS Rob Silverstone CONTENT LICENSING Larry Sommers CORPORATE SALES Brian Kightlinger 12 CHAPTER TWO DIRECT MEDIA Patti Follo Eagle Scout STRATEGIC SOURCING, NEWSSTAND, PRODUCTION Chuck Howell CONSUMER MARKETING Steve Crowe VICE PRESIDENT, GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Stephen Orr DIRECTOR, EDITORIAL OPERATIONS & FINANCE Greg Kayko 24 CHAPTER THREE MEREDITH CORPORATION The Space Race PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Tom Harty CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Joseph Ceryanec CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER John Zieser 30 CHAPTER FOUR PRESIDENT, MEREDITH LOCAL MEDIA GROUP Patrick McCreery “ One Generation Late” SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, HUMAN RESOURCES Dina Nathanson EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN Stephen M. Lacy VICE CHAIRMAN Mell Meredith Frazier 46 CHAPTER FIVE Copyright © 2018 Time Inc. Books, a division of Meredith Corporation. Published by LIFE BOOKS, an imprint of Time Inc. Books Apollo 225 Liberty Street • New York, NY 10281 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage 58 CHAPTER SIX and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. To the Moon and Back B Vol. 18, No. 20 • October 12, 2018 E T T “LIFE” is a trademark of Time Inc., registered in the M A U.S. and other countries. 86 CHAPTER SEVEN NN /G FRONT COVER NASA/ZUMA The Quiet Hero ETT BACK COVER Ralph Crane/LIFE/The Picture Collection Y PHOTOGRAPHS ON PAGES 13, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23: Neil Armstrong™ Used with Permission from the Purdue Research Foundation I N T R O D U C T I O N The Man Who Leapt T oday, it is easily imagined that we and inkiest depths of the Marianas what was happening, and he had a philoso- might step foot on Mars. It’s Trench—and the whole idea of impossible pher’s view and something of a poet’s soul almost as if we’ve already done so, was under assault. to go along with his crack-pilot talents. He with the first inquisitive, keen- Neil Armstrong, who was born into this brought us into the moment. He not only sighted Rover and his (or her) constantly changing world in Ohio in 1930, allowed but urged us all—Russians, intrepid next-generation offspring having was much like other boys. He was shy, duti- Americans and all the peoples of the been deployed so successfully. NASA is ful, likable and calm—preternaturally calm earth—to take the step with him, to make working on the massive Orion spacecraft, under pressure, as it would turn out. His the leap. He took what was already con- which is planned to get future astronauts to colleague pilots in the space program ceived as a transcendent moment in a Mars and back. would come to consider him the coolest of tumultuous time and, unbelievably, he ele- Might we one day float perpetually in them all, a kinsman of the Chuck Yeager vated it. He wasn’t just an astronaut up the heavens, going about our day-to-day character as portrayed by Sam Shepard in there, and this wasn’t just about science, or business like the folks on Star Trek? Or have the film version of The Right Stuff. A year the cold war, or any other one thing. It was we, in fact, been doing that for two decades before he walked on the moon, Armstrong about possibility, and joy. with the International Space Station? Sure, was nearly killed when he ejected from a E.B. White wrote at the time, “One-sixth it looks to be more cramped than the gravity must be a lot of fun, and when Enterprise—a jalopy alongside Captain Armstrong and Aldrin went into their Kirk’s stretch limo—but it’s a start. And it bouncy little dance, like two happy children, “THAT’S ONE SMALL has the added advantage of being real. it was a moment not only of triumph but of Human aspiration has been largely gaiety.” STEP FOR A MAN, stripped of the notion of impossibility. We Triumph, gaiety, joy, amazement . . . and ONE GIANT LEAP FOR have turned so many of yesteryear’s possibility. unthinkable adventures and science fic- The story line goes that Armstrong MANKIND.” tions into historical accomplishments that retreated from view after his famous adven- we have come to feel that even the sky is no ture, but he didn’t. He spoke often enough, —NEIL ARMSTRONG limit. Certainly in the future we will go JULY 20, 1969, 2:56:15 to whom he wanted to, about the moon walk COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME amidst the stars, where now only the and about his life. Looked at one way—born Hubble telescope can take us. Certainly the in Ohio, successful career, three kids, 10 athlete of tomorrow, genetically engineered, grandkids, quiet retirement, died in Ohio at will break the three-minute mile. landing module with barely a second and age 82 in 2012—it looks like a nice, to-be- But once, and not too very long ago, the a half to spare. When asked if the inci- wished-for life’s journey. world—make that the universe—was filled dent—one of his several near-death But what a journey it truly was, and he with impossibilities. A journey to the bot- experiences—had really happened like was generous enough to take us along. tom of the sea and a trip to the moon were that, he said only, “Yeah.” the imaginings of fantasists like Jules Verne, He began his NASA career at the Lewis BOUND BY GLORY as improbable as Tolkien’s hobbits or Research Center, later renamed Glenn At top left is Neil Armstrong. The year is 1963, Rowling’s Hogwarts. Research Center for an earlier midwestern and this is the new crop of NASA astronauts N who will be asked to follow in the space boots O Little boys who grew up on Verne began space cowboy, and did well in the Gemini TI C of the legendary Mercury 7. For Armstrong, E to wonder, and grew to become America’s and Apollo programs. Armstrong had been LL the adventures on Gemini 8 and Apollo 11, the O C and Russia’s early rocketeers. Kids raised largely unnoticed by the public before he E latter of which will take him to his destiny as R U T on the Tom Swift books sensed the moon was anointed to be the one: the first man on the first man on the moon, are well ahead, C PI growing closer. Meantime, impossibilities the moon. not even yet a dream. The others in this HE T group are: front row, James Lovell Jr., James E/ were ticked off the list—Peary reached the But he was surely the right man for the F McDivitt and Charles Conrad Jr.; second row, /LI E North Pole, Hillary and Tenzing con- job. That quote of his as he was in the act of S Elliot See Jr. and Thomas Stafford; third row R O quered Everest, Bannister broke the four- placing his booted foot on the lunar sur- Edward White II and John Young; and opposite H M P minute mile, man descended to the deepest face was confirmation: He understood Armstrong, Frank Borman. AL R 4 LIFE NEIL ARMSTRONG A Movie Mission By Kara Warner R yan Gosling has gone into things that anyone has ever accom- kind of quiet heroism.” outer space—for the new plished, the human himself is a little bit Chazelle adds: “Neil was not a showy movie First Man. In the his- of an enigma.” person. A lot of the other astronauts and torical drama, the Oscar- Chazelle, who worked with Gosling in pilots of that era were what you expect, nominated actor stars as his Oscar-winning 2016 film La La Land, the outgoing, hotshot types, but Neil was pioneering astronaut Neil Armstrong. says that Gosling was his first choice to very different. He was the brainier, qui- The film follows Armstrong’s incredible play Armstrong because he’s a believable eter, more introverted person, and he’s a journey to becoming the first person to introspective hero. “I was fascinated by man of few words who did the job and walk on the moon, in 1969. the psychology of what can drive some- got it done. I see a little bit of Ryan in that “What fascinated me about Neil one to do what Neil Armstrong did, to as well and I think Ryan was able to cap- Armstrong is that he is kind of a mys- physically go further than any human ture it beautifully.” tery,” First Man director Damien being in history pretty much, in terms of Starring opposite Gosling as Chazelle told People magazine. “For the journey he goes on,” Chazelle says. “I Armstrong’s first wife, Janet, is The someone that accomplished something think Ryan is able to capture that kind of Crown’s Claire Foy. The couple are par- that is among one of the most famous drive, that kind of methodical focus, that ents of three children. “Ryan and Claire 6 LIFE NEIL ARMSTRONG LUNAR LOVE AFFAIR Ryan Gosling portrays the stoic Armstrong in First Man, with his eyes on the moon and his heart with his wife. UNIVERSAL PICTURES/COURTESY EVERETT Foy had never worked together, but . . . the early days of the theremin [an eerie, ‘It’s about the moon and the kitchen,’ there was this sort of chemistry and bond spacey-sounding electric instrument which means basically we wanted to between Ryan and Claire onscreen that with metal antennas].” tell the story about one of the most epic really felt like the young Neil and Janet Gosling was also taken with the accomplishments in human history, Armstrong that I had read about.” man’s true life story. “I can’t imagine a but root it very much in the intimate Gosling and Foy dance together greater duality than that between the and the day-to-day details of what it to a special song in one scene. An intimacy of Armstrong’s personal life was actually like,” Chazelle says. “What unusual, but favorite piece of music and the infinite nature of space,” the did it feel like to be Neil or Janet at that of the Armstrongs. “It was a track that actor says. Chazelle’s goal with First moment in time and going through Neil and Janet shared with each other Man is to capture the history-making these truly superhuman kind of events. and that Neil wound up bringing with action of Armstrong’s most famous He adds: “I wanted to try to tell the sort him on the Apollo 11 mission, it’s called moments as an astronaut, as well as of epic space movie [story] but root it ‘Lunar Rhapsody,’” explains Chazelle. what happened while he was off duty, very much in family and in love and loss “It’s quite appropriate, but it’s this sort at home with his family. “Ryan and I and marriage and parenthood and what of weird theremin orchestral track from described the movie to each other as those things mean.” 7 MOON MEN ROAMING THE EARTH Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan had walked and never touched down (on Apollo 8 and is remembered in Jeffrey Kluger’s essay. Front on the lunar surface, and Jim Lovell, veteran Apollo 13). Beginning in 2010, these former row, from left, Cernan, Lovell and Armstrong of four NASA space missions, was the only colleagues and lifelong mates engaged in a pose with the troops at a U.S. military base in man ever to have traveled to the moon twice series of morale-boosting tours, one of which Kuwait. 8 LIFE NEIL ARMSTRONG