What "First Man" Gets Fabulously Right About NASA: An Interview with Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden

First Man is not like other movies about the space race, and I mean that in a very good way.I’ll admit, I was skeptical about the director of La La Land telling the story of Neil Armstrong’s historic landing on the Moon. (Would there be songs? A scowling J.K. Simmons?) It turns out to be a synergistic pairing of artist and material. First Man brushes aside the expected saga of space cowboys saddling up their steel horses, delivering instead a moving narrative of NASA’s glory da