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Author Purdue University. Archives and Special Collections, author.

Title Dear Neil Armstrong : letters to the first man on the moon from all mankind / [edited by] James R. Hansen
Published West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 358 pages)
Series Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics
Purdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics.
Summary "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 from All Mankind 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"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Letters selected from Purdue University Archives and Special Collections' larger Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives, established in 2011
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2019)
Subject Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012 -- Correspondence
Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012 -- Influence
SUBJECT Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012 fast
Subject Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives.
Project Apollo (U.S.)
SUBJECT Project Apollo (U.S.) fast
Subject Astronauts -- United States -- Correspondence
Fan mail.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Astronauts
Fan mail
United States
Genre/Form Personal correspondence
Form Electronic book
Author Hansen, James R., editor.
Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012. Correspondence. Selections
LC no. 2019031371
ISBN 9781612496030
1612496032
1612496024
9781612496023