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050 00 $aTL789.85.A75$bA4 2020
082 00 $a629.450092$223
245 00 $aDear Neil Armstrong :$bletters to the first man on the moon from all mankind /$c[edited by] James R. Hansen.
264 1 $aWest Lafayette, Indiana :$bPurdue University Press,$c[2020]
300 $axxiv, 358 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aPurdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics
500 $aLetters selected from Purdue University Archives and Special Collections' larger Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives, established in 2011.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $a"In the years between the historic first moon landing by Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, and his death at age 82 on August 25, 2012, Neil Armstrong received hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world, congratulating him, praising him, requesting pictures and autographs, and asking him what must have seemed to him to be limitless-and occasionally intrusive-questions. Of course, all the famous astronauts received fan mail, but the sheer volume Armstrong had to deal with for more than four decades after his moon landing was staggering. Today, the preponderance of those letters-some 75,000 of them-are preserved in the archives at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind publishes a careful sampling of these letters-roughly 400-reflecting the various kinds of correspondence that Armstrong received along with representative samples of his replies. Selected and edited by James R. Hansen, Armstrong's authorized biographer and author of the New York Times best seller First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, this collection sheds light on Armstrong's enduring impact and offers an intimate glimpse into the cultural meanings of human spaceflight. Readers will explore what the thousands of letters to Neil Armstrong meant not only to those who wrote them, but as a snapshot of one of humankind's greatest achievements in the twentieth century. They will see how societies and cultures projected their own meanings onto one of the world's great heroes and iconic figures"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aArmstrong, Neil,$d1930-2012$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aArmstrong, Neil,$d1930-2012$vInfluence.
650 0 $aAstronauts$zUnited States$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aFan mail.
610 20 $aBarron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives.
610 20 $aProject Apollo (U.S.)
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610 27 $aProject Apollo (U.S.)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00610722
650 7 $aAstronauts.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00819615
650 7 $aFan mail.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00920614
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 $aPersonal correspondence.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919948
700 1 $aHansen, James R.,$eeditor.
700 12 $aArmstrong, Neil,$d1930-2012.$tCorrespondence.$kSelections.
710 2 $aPurdue University.$bArchives and Special Collections,$ehost institution.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tDear Neil Armstrong$dWest Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2019.$z9781612496023$w(DLC) 2019031371
830 0 $aPurdue studies in aeronautics and astronautics.
852 00 $bglx$hTL789.85.A75$iA4 2020