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It always seemed to me that the long pauses between "man... one... giant leap" are consistent with him realising that he made a mistake (dropped the word "a"),
by taejo 7y ago
It always seemed to me that the long pauses between "man... one... giant leap" are consistent with him realising that he made a mistake (dropped the word "a"), and then deciding to just go ahead.
- SpikeDad 7y agoI agree he didn't say the "a" and your explanation is something I hadn't thought of before. In any case if Neil has really said "for a man" everyone at NASA publicity would have been quick to put out an announcement but the "controversy" was much later than the actual landing so it seems to me someone (Neil perhaps) is trying to "correct" history. Frankly I like it the original way regardless if it's not syntactically correct. We've found out subsequent to the landing all of the problems and even almost disasters and we still successfully landed and returned. I think it's a testament to the human spirit - we make mistakes and still accomplish our goals.
- ncmncm 7y agoNo, he did not make a mistake. You are just not used to his accent. Americans do have accents, and they differ from place to place. No one from where he comes from makes this mistake. Now that you know better, you can avoid making it again.