to wepocetta. charming and not far interestingly from day ton where tinkeredt brothers had in their bicycle shop and flight. talked to numerous friends and so, ly and in doing discovered no book had ever been written about neil armstrong, very i was very, surprised. he only thing close to it was "life" magazine at the time of the space landing put together a biography of f a the three astronauts that landed apollo 11.ere on but no proper biography had ever been done. over the years i thought that it should be. gradually learned more about him. and i took it to my publisher sold him on it and began in earnest interviewing people who had shared his journey, some of other -- fellow astronauts as well as the people people, the men he served in korea with. of lked to just about all the surviving men who were in of an aircraft carrier with him in the korean war. i talked to many of the people purdue university with. nd learned much about his remarkable life. i first came to this, i that isome of the myth