Famous lost word: The 'a' in 'one small step' line
Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 15:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(AP) -- When Neil Armstrong first spoke from the moon, he said one thing and people on Earth heard another. What the world heard was grammatically flubbed: "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong insists he said: "That's one small step for 'a' man." It's just that people just didn't hear it.