Please visit http://www.apolloarchive.com for links to the now-
available official Neil Armstrong biography, "First Man," by James
Hansen, as well as links to other new titles, including "Rocketman,"
the biography of Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad.

Here is a direct Amazon.com (US) link for "First Man":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/074325631X/retroweb0e-20

Also, an interview with Neil Armstrong will appear on the Sunday,
November 6 edition of CBS' Sixty Minutes. Below is the description
of this upcoming interview from the CBS web site:

Being The First Man On The Moon
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(CBS) The man who will be forever famous as the first to set foot on
the moon says he doesn't deserve that fame.

Neil Armstrong talks to Ed Bradley in the first television profile he
has ever agreed to do, revealing his personal feelings about Apollo
11, his family and the fame he shuns this Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005.

"I don't deserve (attention for being the first man on the moon
because) I wasn't chosen to be first," says Armstrong, visibly
uncomfortable. "I was just chosen to command that flight.
Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by
anyone."

One of the disappointing parts of celebrity, says Armstrong, was the
difference in the way he says he was treated after the historic
landing.

"Friends and colleagues - all of a sudden - looked at us, treated us
differently than they had months or years before when we were working
together," he says. "I never quite understood that."

Another result of his career as a test pilot and astronaut was the
toll it took on his family.

"The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount
of my time and a lot of travel," he tells Bradley, "and I didn't get
to spend the time I would have liked with my family as they grew up."

Armstrong had two sons with his wife of 38 years, Janet, from whom he
was divorced in 1994. He also had a 2-year-old daughter, Karen, who
died in 1962 of brain cancer, a tragedy that he tried to keep from
affecting his work.

"I thought the best thing for me to do in that situation was to
continue with my work, keep things as normal as I could," says
Armstrong, ". not to have it affect my ability to do useful things."

Armstrong was so focused on his work that he rarely took a break,
even the day he was nearly killed when he was forced to eject from an
experimental lunar-landing craft that was too close to the ground, a
narrow escape that could have resulted in his death.

"Yeah, probably would have (been killed)," says Armstrong. Bradley
then asks if it was true that he returned to his office to do
paperwork afterward. " I did - there was work to be done," he tells
Bradley.

Armstrong has a new authorized biography titled First Man. It is
published by Simon & Schuster, which, like CBS, is a Viacom company.

(from
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/03/60minutes/main1008288.shtml
)

Kipp Teague
The Project Apollo Archive
http://www.apolloarchive.com