Is there a place for heroes like Neil Armstrong in the US of today's era?

Though he did some advertising campaigns for Chrysler and a few other firms, Armstrong mostly kept a low profile

According to a Gallup Poll from 1999, only 50 percent of those surveyed could even name Neil Armstrong as the first man to land on the moon.

How might the moon walker fare 19 years later?

The film “First Man,” starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, may boost public recognition of Armstrong’s name and career. But his fate after his “giant leap for all mankind” mirrored that of public interest in the moon landings and, broader still, trust in government, which has steadily eroded since the early 1970s.

It may be hard to imagine