At the same time, she did resent Armstrong’s burying himself in his work to the exclusion of everything else. Janet accepted that as the wife of an astronaut, “our lives were dedicated to a cause, to try to reach the goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of 1969,” she told Life magazine in a post-landing interview. This seems to be a fairly accurate representation of the relationship. She finally rebels when she asks him to speak to their two boys before he heads off for the moon landing mission to warn them he might not come back. The movie shows Janet Armstrong getting on with raising the family and supporting Neil despite his emotional compartmentalization, keeping his family separate from his work and spending far more time and energy on the latter. But does it share his dedication to scrupulously accurate information? Below, we break down what’s fact and what’s artistic license. ![]() Hansen’s Armstrong biography of the same name, is understated, emotionally remote, and ambitious. Like its hero, First Man, based on James R. What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in the Pam & Tommy Episode About Pam’s Rise to Fame What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in the Pam & Tommy Episode Where Pam Confronts Jay Leno What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in the Pam & Tommy Finale ![]() What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Ron Howard’s Thai Cave Rescue Movie However, the lunatics who believe otherwise are likely to feel bolstered by the meticulously recreated, entirely believable moon landing in Damien Chazelle’s First Man, the story of Neil Armstrong’s journey to taking that giant leap for mankind. First things first: The 1969 moon landing actually did happen, despite the surprisingly long-lived conspiracy theory that the manned missions to the moon were fakes staged in Hollywood.
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