Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in First Man Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy
There is a fiery about a new movie, First Man, which recounts NASA’s mission to put a human on the moon. The film omits Neil Armstrong, played by Ryan Gosling, planting the US flag on the moon.
US senator Marco Rubio called this exclusion “”. Fellow senator Ted Cruz the film of being “wrong” and “denying American exceptionalism”. Others, including Gosling, have the decision to omit the flag-planting as a reflection of Armstrong’s belief that it was an achievement for all humanity rather…
