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Associated Press

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. He said there was a lost word in his famous one-liner from the moon: “That’s one small step for ‘a’ man.
“It’s just that people just didn’t hear it.”
Apollo 11 moon landing conspiracy … the truth is out there
During a 30th anniversary gathering in 1999, the Apollo 11 commander acknowledged that he didn’t hear himself say it either when he listened to the transmission from the July 20, 1969, moon landing.
“The ‘a’ was intended,” Armstrong said.
“I thought I said it. I can’t hear it when I listen on the radio reception here on Earth, so I’ll be happy if you just put it in parentheses.”
While it seems no one heard the “a”, some research backs Armstrong.


In 2006, a computer analysis of sound waves found evidence that Armstrong said what he said he said. Nasa has also stood by the moonwalker.
Armstrong, who died in 2012 at age 82, said he came up with the statement himself.
In a 2001 Nasa oral history, he said Nasa discouraged coaching astronauts, a position reflected in a Nasa memo.
It cited how “the truest emotion … is what the explorer feels within himself.”
“I thought about it after landing,” Armstrong said about his famous line. “And because we had a lot of other things to do, it was not something that I really concentrated on, but just something that was kind of passing around subliminally or in the background. But it, you know, was a pretty simple statement, talking about stepping off something. Why, it wasn’t a very complex thing. It was what it was.”


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Apollo 11: what Neil Armstrong really said on the moon 50 years ago

In this July 20, 1969 image made from television, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong steps onto the surface of the moon. File photo: Nasa

Apollo 11 moon landing conspiracy … the truth is out there

Astronaut Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin walks on the moon, or in a Hollywood studio, depending who you ask. Photo: EPA

epa07672252 An undated handout photo made available by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows the 'Apollo 11 lunar landing mission crew with (L-R) mission commander Neil A. Armstrong, command module pilot Michael Collins and lunar module pilot Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. posing in their space suits (issued 25 June 2019). The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, an event seen as the peak of the United States' space program of the 1960s which put an end to the so-called 'Race to Space' between the Cold War rivals the US and the Soviet Union, that once was triggered by the USSR's 04 October 1957 launch of the 'Sputnik 1' satellite. NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong made history when he stepped out of the Apollo 11's 'Eagle' landing module on 21 July 1969 and left the first human footprints on the moon. EPA-EFE/NASA HANDOUT ATTENTION: For the full PHOTO ESSAY text please see Advisory Notice epa07672247 HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

epa07672253 A handout photo made available by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows Launch Control Center personnel watching as the 'Saturn V' rocket carrying the 'Apollo 11' astronauts lifts off the launch pad in Cape Canavarel on 16 July 1969 (issued 25 June 2019). The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, an event seen as the peak of the United States' space program of the 1960s which put an end to the so-called 'Race to Space' between the Cold War rivals the US and the Soviet Union, that once was triggered by the USSR's 04 October 1957 launch of the 'Sputnik 1' satellite. NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong made history when he stepped out of the Apollo 11's 'Eagle' landing module on 21 July 1969 and left the first human footprints on the moon. EPA-EFE/NASA HANDOUT BLACK/WHITE ONLY * ATTENTION: For the full PHOTO ESSAY text please see Advisory Notice epa07672247 HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

epa07672262 (FILE) - A handout photo made available by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows 'Apollo 11' astronaut Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin's boot and footprint in lunar soil on 20 July 1969 (issued 25 June 2019). The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, an event seen as the peak of the United States' space program of the 1960s which put an end to the so-called 'Race to Space' between the Cold War rivals the US and the Soviet Union, that once was triggered by the USSR's 04 October 1957 launch of the 'Sputnik 1' satellite. NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong made history when he stepped out of the Apollo 11's 'Eagle' landing module on 21 July 1969 and left the first human footprints on the moon. EPA-EFE/EDWIN ALDRIN/NASA HANDOUT ATTENTION: For the full PHOTO ESSAY text please see Advisory Notice epa07672247 HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES *** Local Caption *** 01797767

epa07672259 (FILE) - A handout photo made available by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows Earthrise viewed from the 'Apollo 11' mission's lunar landing module 'Eagle' prior to its landing on 20 July 1969 (issued 25 June 2019). The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, an event seen as the peak of the United States' space program of the 1960s which put an end to the so-called 'Race to Space' between the Cold War rivals the US and the Soviet Union, that once was triggered by the USSR's 04 October 1957 launch of the 'Sputnik 1' satellite. NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong made history when he stepped out of the Apollo 11's 'Eagle' landing module on 21 July 1969 and left the first human footprints on the moon. EPA-EFE/NASA HANDOUT ATTENTION: For the full PHOTO ESSAY text please see Advisory Notice epa07672247 HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES *** Local Caption *** 01797773

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Neil Armstrong casts the first human shadow on the moon's surface. Photo: NYT

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Astronauts Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin with president Richard Nixon. Photo: AP

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Photo: NASA

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Apollo 11: what Neil Armstrong really said on the moon 50 years ago

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Neil Armstrong came up with the famous statement himself