BEGIN SLIDESHOW New First Man featurette discusses the history of moon landing Universal Pictures has released a new featurette for Damien Chazelle’s upcoming film, First Man. Actor Ryan Gosling stars as astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the Moon. And the actors and crew discuss in the featurette how it was surprising that no one had focused on the months prior to the moon landing and on Neil Armstrong prior to his historic first step on the moon.