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"One small step for Man......."
It's 40 years since Armstrong said the famous line, he apparently claimed he said that it was "One small step for A man....". The tapes have been analysed and he definately said the former but presumably meant to say the latter. The experts agree that missing out the A sounds better, so was the most iconic sentence in recent history an error? As usual a Geezer blue badge goes to the first person to mention the usual thing that comes up when this subject is discussed!
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Apparently, the 'a' is there for 35 milliseconds, which is too fast to be heard.
"The missing word was found this month in a software analysis of Armstrong's famous phrase by Peter Shann Ford, a Sydney, Australia-based computer programmer. Ford's company, Control Bionics, specializes in helping physically handicapped people use their nerve impulses to communicate through computers.
According to Ford, Armstrong spoke, "One small step for a man ... " with the "a" lasting a total of 35 milliseconds, 10 times too quickly to be heard."
The "a" was transmitted, though, and can be verified in an analysis using Canadian sound-editing software called GoldWave, Ford said.
From this link dated 2006
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4225 856.html
"The missing word was found this month in a software analysis of Armstrong's famous phrase by Peter Shann Ford, a Sydney, Australia-based computer programmer. Ford's company, Control Bionics, specializes in helping physically handicapped people use their nerve impulses to communicate through computers.
According to Ford, Armstrong spoke, "One small step for a man ... " with the "a" lasting a total of 35 milliseconds, 10 times too quickly to be heard."
The "a" was transmitted, though, and can be verified in an analysis using Canadian sound-editing software called GoldWave, Ford said.
From this link dated 2006
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4225 856.html
This story came up about a year or so ago.
Missing the A sounds better but is pretty meaningless.
The more amusing one was Pete Conrad's reputed words. He was the 3rd man on the moon.
It's quite a long way from the bottom rung of the lunar lander to the surface and Conrad was quite short. He is meant to have said:
"Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me!"
Missing the A sounds better but is pretty meaningless.
The more amusing one was Pete Conrad's reputed words. He was the 3rd man on the moon.
It's quite a long way from the bottom rung of the lunar lander to the surface and Conrad was quite short. He is meant to have said:
"Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me!"
The usual thing that comes up is the urban myth about Armstrong's next door neighbour -
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/armstro ng-gorsky.htm
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/armstro ng-gorsky.htm
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