I'm sure you'll enjoy it, Raoul. It's a solid biography written by a professional, NASA historian James R. Hansen, who had full access to Armstrong and his friends, family, and colleagues.

I appreciated the way Hansen examined several of the controversies surrounding Armstrong's life and career. Armstrong's flying career in Korea gets significant coverage, and it turns out that Armstrong's squadron was the basis for the Michener's "The Bridges of Toko Ri". Hansen examines the many claims of people who suddenly discovered in 1969 that they were Armstrong's best boyhood buddies, and examines some of the legendary mishaps of Armstrong's flying career, including a couple of rough landings. Hansen's not afraid to examine the stories surrounding Buzz Aldrin's legendary pique at not getting to exit the LM first, sorting through the statements and recollections of all involved, including a statement from Chris Kraft which, finally, definitively answers the question of how the choice was finally made...and that I won't spoil by revealing.

I give the book two thumbs up. (Does it actually matter, since this is the one and only official Armstrong biography and we'd read it even if it were awful? Sure, but it's nice that Hansen did a good job. This book isn't just going through the motions.)

There is one spoiler I deliberately want to reveal, because it's pretty special and relevant. This is about the Moon Hoax Hoax and Neil's desire to make an effective rebuttal:

Subsequently, in 2002, NASA commissioned distinguished space writer and veteran UFO debunker James Oberg to write a 30,000 word monograph refuting the notion that the Apollo program was a hoax. After news of the plan for Oberg's book hit the papers, however, NASA quickly reversed course, judging that not even a judicious, well-argued refutation could successfully achieve its intended effect.

Congratulations, Jim! A reference in print like that is always nice, but this one's particularly special, considering that it's in Neil Armstrong's official biography. We assume that Armstrong will be remembered forever, and thus scholars of the distant future will be referring to this book as the authoritative source for a very long time. Our JimO has hitched a ride on the Armstrong Immortality Express, and not as just a footnote, but an entire paragraph!