Neil Armstrong ' fluffing' his lines ?

[Bazile]

OK - Hands up all those of you ( can you see mine going up ? ) who were not aware that he was considered to have messed up his famous lines as he became the first human being to set foot on the moon .

Apparently ,it's has always been thought he said ' .... one small step for man ......... ( which he always denied ) as opposed to ' ......one small step for a man ...... '

The missing 'a' has been found by analysis of the recording ( item on radio 2 - Jeremy Vine show today )

Incidentally , for all those people who still do not consider that the moon landing was real - do you really consider that ( given that the Soviet Union and the Americans were in fierce opposition at the time to be the first nation to land a man on the moon ) the Russians closely monitoring events , would not have ascertained that it was a hoax - or found out but kept quiet ?

[naz_nomad]

It must be correct, or the director would've yelled 'CUT' and done another take...

Don't tell me you're one of those who believe we've been to the moon.

[sp1814]

I read the story on Snopes.com a couple of years back. Until I read the story, I hadn't ever consciously clocked that what he appears to say doesn't make any sense (one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind").

Listen to a recording here...it sounds like he fluffed it to me, because every other word is clear:

http://67.19.222.106/quotes/audio/apollo11.wav

The story from www.snopes.com is here:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/onesmall.asp

[dyli795]

If I'd of been first man on the moon I think I'd of messed up more than my lines!

[steviep165]

my words would have been,,
"are you mad!! i aint going out there! you do it!!"

[cool-russian]

Neil Armstrong should have said buzz your ar@e looks nice in that space suit !!!Aldrin would have flown out the hatch!!!

[shammydodger]

dyli795

I can guarantee that you'd have failed the first stage of the selection procedure. Any form containing a grammatical error as glaring as "I'd of" would have been sent straight to the crapper.

[Bazile]

sp1814 - I agree that listening to the recording , he does not appear to say .. a man

However from what this guy was saying , because of the american accent , the 'a' was spoken so close to the 'man' , in terms of the time interval , that it merges into the word 'man' - and the human ear is not capable of picking up the separation of the 'a' from the 'man'

Using the latest software , he has shown by the wave patterns ( if I recall correctly ) that there is an 'a' , there .

NASA are apparently examining his findings , and will make an announcement , in due course

[Bazile]

naz _ nomad - Yes I am , for the reason I have given

Also , given the large number of people involved , I cannot see how they could have kept all these people quiet for so long - someone involved in this ' hoax ' , would have spilt the beans by now

[jenstar]

I still think Neil Armstrong fluffed his lines, and knew it. After the "That's one small step for man", there's a huge gap before he says, rather falteringly, "One giant leap for mankind". And in the gap, you know he's got to be thinking "Oh sh*t! I've f*cked it up!".

[spudqueen]

Yes I was aware that he hadn't said what he was supposed to have said (allegedly!) as the words he was supposed to say were written by the President of the USA.

[sp1814]

The strane thing is...until I read about this a couple of years back, I would never have clocked that the line sounds (or is) fluffed.

I wonder what Neil himself has to say about this, or perhaps as he would say it:

"I wonder what Neil himself to say about this"

(You see what I did there?)

[juddlinski]

The fact that the US government couldnt even plant a few fake WMDs in the Iraqi desert leads me to believe that faking the Moon Landings were beyond a 60s government...

[fuggy]

fake moon landing ?

are you serious ? how would you keep all those involved keeping their mouths shut ?

[dyli795]

............. Had I of been, .................. or is it, Had I been, or Where I to of been, If I was, or, If I, being first man on the .... wichwonizit?

[Bazile]

fuggy - who's post are you responding to ?

[dyli795]

O.K., I'm out of the crapper now, and I've made my own decision.
I've always noticed the "fluf" we're all talking about, but I always thought it came about because he was negotiating the rungs of the ladder, or jumping (as he did from the last rung) onto the surface. It isn't something you do every day is it? Who would not be a bit distracted at that moment?

[vehelpfulguy]

I think he meant to say:

Great, we beat the Russians.

[Andy Boz]

So who filmed him coming down the steps?

[dyli795]

Wasn't me.