The truth behind Armstrong’s ‘one small step’ quote

PTI Jan 4, 2013, 07.16AM IST

LONDON: The famous 'one small step' line uttered by Neil Armstrong after landing on the lunar surface, was not as spontaneous as he had claimed, in fact he wrote it months before flying to the Moon, it has emerged.
Three months after Armstrong's death, his family has claimed he wrote the words â€" to mark the moment he stepped onto the Moon â€" months in advance and had always intended to include the notorious missing 'a' in the speech, The Telegraph said.

Armstrong, who died last August aged 82, maintained he decided on the line after landing on the surface of the moon and had said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" .

Millions who watched him stepping onto the dusty lunar surface, however, did not hear the crucial 'a' in the phrase â€" sparking decades of debate over its meaning.

However, a series of new and rare interviews with his family broadcasted on BBC Two have revealed that Armstrong scripted his famous words several months before the launch.

Dean Armstrong, the astronaut's brother, claimed that Neil had asked him to read the famous quote shortly before the Apollo 11 crew left for Cape Canaveral.

Dean said the original phrase, handed to him on a piece of paper by his brother, contained the infamous missing 'a' , although during the interview, even he dropped the letter as he told the story, the paper said.

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