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The story told in “First Man,” the new Neil Armstrong biopic, is by now a familiar part of American history: a tale of the early Apollo program’s obsessive drive to win the space race and get to the moon.

A less familiar story for most viewers is a persistent urban legend about the first human to reach the lunar surface.

I first encountered it in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in the s, when I was traveling alone for the first time. A Somali named Abdullah, who had come to Indonesia to purchase sarongs to sell in his store back in Mogadishu, was staying at the same guesthouse as I was.

As we chatted one late afternoon, the muezzin’s call pierced the air, and I told Abdullah that I found it a very beautiful sound.

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He replied with barely constrained enthusiasm: “Is it true? Is it true about Mr. Neil Armstrong?”

Space fever had long quelled in the United States. I hadn’t even heard Armstrong’s name in years, so the inquiry struck me as coming f