I always remembered it as hearing it as "one small step for man". There may have been an audio dropout glitch on the "a" if he said that. There is a small controversy over what was said and happened.
----------------- J.C.O'Connell [email protected] ----------------- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 2:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: OT - Wide Awake in the Sea of Tranquility From: "J.C. O'Connell" > I read recently that he actually said or meant to say was "one small step > for A man, one giant leap for mankind" because without the "A", man and > mankind are redundant. Yeah, I've heard that as well. I must have misheard him all those years ago, because I always thought he said "one small step for a man". -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
