While Ryan Gosling’s Neil Armstrong remains a stoic figure throughout most of Damien Chazelle’s First Man, never seeming to fully process the death of his daughter as he enters the space program, he succeeds in having a big emotional moment shortly after he lands on the moon.
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It’s revealed in the film that he brought a bracelet belonging to his daughter in the shuttle with him, and he leaves it in a crater on the moon in her memory.