Armstrong’s Famous LOST Word

WASHINGTON—When Neil Armstrong first spoke from the moon 40 years ago today, the Ohio native said one thing and people on Earth heard another.

What the world heard was grammatically flubbed: “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.“

Armstrong insists he said: “That’s one small step for ‘a’ man.“ It’s just that people just didn’t hear it.

Science, and NASA, back up Armstrong.

In 2006, a computer analysis found evidence that Armstrong said what he said he said.

An Australian computer programmer ran a software analysis and found a sound wave that would have been the missing “a.“

Armstrong is famously a man of few words, but he and NASA insist he came up with those famous and profound words on his own.

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