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  1. Sep 8, 2016 · Armstrong on the moon. (Photo: NASA) When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969, he uttered a series of words. “One small step”…but for whom? Most famously, the quote is “One small step for...

  2. Jul 16, 2019 · Fifty years after the first Moon landing, some people still don't believe that it actually happened. Here's how we know that it did.

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    • US astronaut Neil Armstrong aboard a simulator practices piloting safely the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle in 1967 two years before Apollo XI space mission launch to the moon.
    • Neil Armstrong was a test pilot at the Dryden Flight Research Center in the 1950s and early '60s. He is seen here operating the Iron Cross Attitude Simulator reaction controls simulating the X-15.
    • The Apollo 11 Command/Service Module (CSM) are being mated to the Saturn V Lunar Module Adapter. Photo: NASA. Myth: From the start, NASA intended for the talented, dependable, and undaunted Armstrong to be the commander of the first moon landing.
    • Neil Armstrong is seen here next to the X-15 ship #1 after a research flight. The X-15 was a missile-shaped, rocket-powered aircraft 50 feet long with a wingspan of 22 feet.
    • Was Neil Armstrong Inspired by The Hobbit?
    • Was The Famous Quote Taken from A NASA Memo?
    • Was Neil Armstrong Misquoted?

    According to Armstrong biographer James R. Hansen — author of First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, which inspired the 2018 film First Man — some think Neil Armstrong’s famous quote is a riff on a line from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, in which the author describes protagonist Bilbo Baggins becoming invisible and jumping over the villain Gollum...

    Others have said Armstrong mayhave been influenced by a April 19, 1969, memo he had seen from Willis Shapley, an associate deputy administrator at NASA headquarters. “The intended overall impression of the symbolic activities and of the manner in which they are presented to the world should be to signalize [sic] the first lunar landing as an histor...

    Grammarians have also pondered the matter of “the missing ‘a'”: In the audio from the moon, Armstrong sounds as if he’s saying “one small step for man,” and that’s the wording that appeared incontemporary reports on the moment. But wouldn’t it make more sense for him to have said “one small step for aman”? That extra article would improve the sente...

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    • Olivia B. Waxman
  3. Jan 2, 2013 · The famous first words uttered by the first person on the moon, Neil Armstrong, may not have been as spontaneous as commonly thought, according to Armstrong's brother.

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    • Clara Moskowitz
  4. Jul 16, 2019 · Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969. As he did so, he spoke the famous words: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." A camera was able to...

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  6. Jul 10, 2019 · What did Neil Armstrong really say when he took his first step on the moon? Millions on Earth who listened to him on TV or radio heard this: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” But after returning from space, Armstrong said that wasn’t what he had planned to say.