Was the walk on the moon one small step for man, or a man? Neil
Armstrong’s first words from the moon were heard all over Earth,
and Earth heard this: “That’s one small step for man, one giant
leap for mankind.” But Armstrong said immediately after the 1969
landing that he had been misquoted. He said he actually said,
“That’s one small step for ‘a’ man.” It’s just that people just
didn’t hear it. The astronaut acknowledged in a rare interview
in 1999 that he didn’t hear himself say it either when he
listened to the transmission from the July 20, 1969, moon
landing. “The ‘a’ was intended,” Armstrong said. “I thought I
said it. I can’t hear it when I listen on the radio reception
here on Earth, so I’ll be happy if you just put it in
parentheses.” Although no in the world heard the “‘a,” some
research backs Armstrong. In 2006, a computer analysis found
evidence that Armstrong said what he said he said. Peter Shann
Ford, an Australian computer programmer, ran a software analysis
looking at sound waves and found a