As Armstrong himself pointed out many times, the sentence is meaningful only if he says, “That’s one small step for a man.” He insisted that’s what he said on July 20, 1969 – otherwise, there’s no distinction between a single individual and all of humanity.
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Neil Armstrong: NASA. As the world celebrates the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing made by American spacecraft Apollo 11, on July 20, 1969, the man who took those historic first steps is the subject of renewed fascination.
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But did Neil Armstrong really mean to say those words when he stepped onto the moon and spoke to an estimated 600 million television viewers around the world? Ever since the landing on 20 July 1969, there has been controversy over whether he fluffed his line.
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From left to right they are: Commander, Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module Pilot, Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. On July 20th 1969 at 4:18 PM, EDT the Lunar Module Eagle landed in a region of the Moon called the Mare Tranquillitatis, also known as the Sea of Tranquillity.
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Coming out of Armstrong’s mouth, the phrase “for a” would have sounded like “frrr(uh),” according to the story. So Dilley and her colleagues turned to recordings of 40 people raised in Columbus, Ohio, about 90 miles southeast of Armstrong’s native Wapakoneta.
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The Eagle has landed. Neil Armstrong (5 August 1930 – 25 August 2012) was an American test pilot and astronaut, who was the commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission on July 20, 1969, in which he and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to land on the moon, and he was the first man to walk on the moon. 1 Quotes.
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1 One Small Step, transcript of Apollo 11 moon landing.  Words said when Armstrong first stepped onto the moon (20 July 1969). In the actual sound recordings he apparently fails to say a before man and says: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.. This was generally considered by many to simply be an error of omission on his part.
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Did Neil Armstrong really say, 'That's one small step for a man'? Neil Armstrong’s most famous line – “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” uttered after becoming the first person to set foot on the moon – contained one small error that became one giant annoyance to the NASA astronaut.
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Nasa/ Kennedy Space Center, NASA. The Apollo 11 crew, from left: from left, Neil Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, conducting a crew compartment fit and functional check, of the equipment and storage locations, in their command module.
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Science Science Now. Karen Kaplan. Neil Armstrong’s most famous line – “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” uttered after becoming the first person to set foot on the moon – contained one small error that became one giant annoyance to the NASA astronaut.
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when did neil armstrong step on the moon
Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon on July 20, 1969.