Questions for Armstrong

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Quote from Moondust by Andrew Smith:

So I told him what I wanted to know: the fourteen minutes he spent on the lunar surface on his own, utterly alone, staring out at a meticulously shifting Universe, full of unimaginable forces and giant inscrutable, unstoppable bodies, but no mind like his….was the feeling like any he’d had before? Like sex? Like swimming in the sea at night? Going out without your parents on Halloween for the first time? Like he’d imagined all along, with no surprises? Did he feel alone, like a representative of the Earth, or closer to the stars? Did he leave us for a moment and feel like Dave Bowman in 2001, or want to tell Houston to fuck off and shut up and let him be there for a while? Did he feel adrift, or cosseted, or get the urge to do anything mad, like when you’re standing waiting for the subway and get a fleeting impulse to jump and test the truth of morality? Did he feel nothing at all?