<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $75.2 million </Td> </Tr> <P> First Man is a 2018 American biographical drama film directed by Damien Chazelle and written by Josh Singer . Based on the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen, the film stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, alongside Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Ciarán Hinds, Christopher Abbott, Patrick Fugit, and Lukas Haas, and follows the years leading up to the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in 1969 . Steven Spielberg serves as an executive producer . </P> <P> First Man had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 12, 2018, by Universal Pictures . The film was critically praised, especially for Gosling and Foy's performances, Chazelle's direction and the Moon landing sequence, and has grossed $75 million worldwide . </P> <P> In 1961, NASA test pilot Neil Armstrong is flying the X-15 rocket plane when it inadvertently bounces off the atmosphere . Although he manages to land the plane in the Mojave Desert, his colleagues express concern that his recent record of mishaps is due to distraction and he is grounded . His two - and - a-half year old daughter, Karen, is undergoing treatment for a brain tumor . Desperate to save her, Armstrong keeps a detailed log of her symptoms and feverishly tries to find possible treatments, but she dies soon afterwards . Grief - stricken, Armstrong applies for Project Gemini and is accepted to NASA Astronaut Group 2 . Armstrong, his wife Janet, and their son Rick move to Houston alongside other astronaut families . Armstrong befriends Elliot See, another civilian test pilot, and Ed White . As Armstrong begins training, Deke Slayton impresses upon the new astronauts the importance of the Gemini program, as the Soviet Union had reached every milestone in the Space Race ahead of the United States . Armstrong and Janet have a second son, Mark . </P>

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