After watching the film First Man, I felt a sense of appreciation. This is not only for Neil Armstrong himself, but I began to realize the amount of dedication and discipline it takes to be a real astronaut. At some point in a kid’s life, they are bound to say that they want to become an astronaut. Little do these young kids know that you have to be one of a kind to make it to the moon in real life. Armstrong just so happened to be one of said people who was able to overcome a difficult personal struggle and still be successful. It was heartbreaking to see how Neil Armstrong’s daughter died of a brain tumor because I had thought that such a cancer is rare at her age. 

Despite the challenges that Neil Armstrong faced as a human, it seems as if he had to make himself a robot to prepare him for his space mission. Since this was during the time period of the space race in competition with the Soviet Union, I thought that this film was going to go into the political aspects of being an astronaut that Armstrong had to follow. However, I saw the emotional toll it took on him and how his entire personality has evolved when he blocked out his family before going into space. I hypothesize that this may have to do with wanting to emotionally detach himself so he would not miss his family in space.