The correct quote is much more powerful:
Armstrong 'got Moon quote right'
For nearly 40 years Neil Armstrong has been accused of fluffing his lines during his first steps on the Moon. On tapes of the Moon landings, he appears to drop the "a" from the famous quote: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." But new analysis of the tapes has proved Mr Armstrong right after all. Computer programmer Peter Shann Ford used audio analysis software to show that the missing "a" was blotted out by transmission static.
...but reading about this reminds me that it's been a long time since we've been on the moon. As a child I would have expected to see a Mars landing by 2006.
Comments (2)
I think you meant "flubbing his line"...
I hate to tell you what "fluffing" means....
Posted by Brian Cirulnick | October 4, 2006 12:48 AM
Posted on October 4, 2006 00:48
It's a BBC story, so my guess is that "fluffing" doesn't have that meaning in the UK!
Posted by Michael Pinto | October 4, 2006 1:35 AM
Posted on October 4, 2006 01:35