Life is a funny, strange, uncomfortable thing, for it was the loss of his two-year-old daughter, Karen, that drove Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, to sign up for NASA’s Space Program in 1962. This is, at least, the version of events portrayed in multiple media accounts about the man’s life. Both Damien Chazelle’s 2018 biopic of the trailblazing astronaut, aptly titled First Man, and National Geographic’s documentary The Armstr…