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> On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of his spacecraft and became the first human to walk on the Moon. The first words spoken by him on the
by jrflowers 2y ago
> On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of his spacecraft and became the first human to walk on the Moon. The first words spoken by him on the Moon that day are still remembered.
>[img that misquotes Neil Armstrong]
is a hilarious way to start
- rolandog 2y agoTo be fair, they did not say they were remembered correctly.
- jrflowers 2y agoOr who remembers them (not the person that made the image)
- RandallBrown 2y agoI believe Neil Armstrong said that is the correct quote, it just dropped the "a" in the transmission.
- nrds 2y agoUntil recently I believed that too. However, I came across some discussion which made me realize I was mixing up the sequence. The transmission interruption, which can be clearly heard, didn't happen at that point in the quote; it happened a moment later, after the word "man". The critical part of the quote seems to come through clear. It's more of a linguistic question about how "for a" and "for" may sound almost indistinguishable in Armstrong's accent.
- alnwlsn 2y agoI have a similar accent and we would say it like "furrah-man". For me, the "ah" becomes a lot weaker going into the "m", so I can easily see it. I'm also intrigued by the idea that it was a flub which he realized instantly (if you listen to the recording): ... step for man <pause> (dammit) ... one giant leap...
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- AStonesThrow 2y agoThere is a whole controversy and analysis about that particular syllable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong#First_Moon_walk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong#First_Moon_walk Also, the blog post in the submission omits a major detail: the on-orbit docking maneuvers for the CSM to mate with the LM. A minor detail is that the Saturn V's third stage performed TLI (trans-lunar injection) and it actually impacted the Moon. After this TLI, the LM and the CSM were flying free in space, with a bit of separation, and it was the CSM pilot who needed to turn 180° and nose-in to the LM in order to be in the proper configuration for the hypothetical Moon landing. It was an unusual configuration for Apollo 13, to say the least, because of course they did not land on the Moon, but also because the "base/legs" part of the LM wouldn't be "left behind" on the lunar surface, so they sort of lugged it around awhile. I don't know the exact sequence of jettisoning that base, but they certainly relied on the LM "head" as a lifeboat and a source of additional life-support functions.
- mandevil 2y agoAt one point they discussed jettisoning the landing stage of the LM, for less mass so that the PC+2 burn would get them home faster, but most of the batteries and O2 tanks on the LM were in the descent stage (4 of the 6 batteries, I don't remember the distribution of the tanks) so dropping the landing stage made their other problems even worse. The landing stage stayed attached to the ascent stage for the entire life of Odyssey, and was dumped into a deep trench in the Pacific Ocean because there was a nuclear RTG to power the ALSEP attached to one of the legs of the lander.
- userbinator 2y agoThere is a whole controversy and analysis about that particular syllable Oh FFS... this guy went to the Moon and all people can argue about is what he said? How far we've fallen...
- krapp 2y agoBe glad people still believe anyone ever went to the moon at all. That may not be the case in a few more years.
- euroderf 2y agoIIRC Armstrong said some years later that he had unintentionally left out the "a".