[FPSPACE] Linguistic analysis: Armstrong on the moon

[James Oberg]

Sorry, I don't weigh highly some whiny Brit intellectual's conclusions.
Never have -- and I've heard lots from that cultural quarter.

I heard the comment live. My brain parsed the audio quality compared
to my experience listening to pilot air-to-ground conversations in USAF work. 

When my future wife (with whom I'm soon to celebrate a 40th anniversary)
leaned over to me and asked, 'What did he say?', I repeated to her what 
I had heard him say: "Tha'ts one small step for a man...."

Far more significant an error -- common around the world -- is the mistaken
belief that this was said as Neil jumped down off the ladder and down onto the
surface of the moon, rather than when he smoothly moved his left foot 
off the footpad, where he stood, and pressed it in to the lunar soil.

Jim O

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kosmos327 at aol.com 
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  Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 1:48 PM
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  I have to agree with this. And I find it peculiar that anyone would seriously suggest the phrase as actually spoken to be improper. It was definitely proper enough (and quite moving) at the time.

  Regards,

  David L. Rickman


  In a message dated 6/7/2009 2:23:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jrespler at superlink.net writes:
    He listened repeatedly till he convinced himself that he heard what he 
    wanted to hear.
    It was quite clear that was actually said was
    ...step for man

    No 'a'.




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