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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8081817.stm
Took 'em 40 years to figure it out, hmm? Fancy analysis aside, Walter Cronkite repeated it correctly as he heard it. Being the middle of the night I was wondering what the heck it was supposed to mean. Within 12 hours I think most people realized he had blown his line, though the communications cutout excuse was being vigorously spread by NASA to confuse the issue. We all heard it. The break in his speech plus communications cut out was after 'man' not before it. A lot of people did want to believe the excuse for Armstrong's sake.
Neil Armstrong missed out an "a" and did not say "one small step for a man" when he set foot on the Moon in 1969, a linguistic analysis has confirmed.
Took 'em 40 years to figure it out, hmm? Fancy analysis aside, Walter Cronkite repeated it correctly as he heard it. Being the middle of the night I was wondering what the heck it was supposed to mean. Within 12 hours I think most people realized he had blown his line, though the communications cutout excuse was being vigorously spread by NASA to confuse the issue. We all heard it. The break in his speech plus communications cut out was after 'man' not before it. A lot of people did want to believe the excuse for Armstrong's sake.