Four of Americas moonwalkers are still alive: Aldrin (Apollo 11), David Scott (Apollo 15), Charles Duke (Apollo 16), and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17). Whether it was a misquote or a verbal slip-up, the phrase has become one of the world's most famous sentences and will for ever go down in history as a line which defined an era. Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin were the first of 12 human beings who walked on the Moon. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?"
In the years following the moon landing, Armstrong apparently accepted that he had fluffed the line when presented with a plaque bearing the famous quote.Īccording to the authors of the 1986 book Chariots for Fire, the astronaut tried to argue it omitted the word "a" but after hearing a recording of the flight he admitted: "Damn I really did it.
Shown here is Buzz Aldrin setting up the Solar Wind experiment as part of Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong snapping. However, the New York Times claimed Armstrong's quote could be heard clearly in the recording and concluded that he simply had messed up his line. Apollo 11 brought humans onto the surface of the Moon for the first time in 1969. Realising that it was set to be one of the most important quotes in history, they decided to unanimously settle on one version, which was sent out across the world. News reporters at the time listened again to the raw footage and agreed it was unclear whether Armstrong had actually said "a man" or "man". The 1972 Apollo mission was, of course, not the first manned mission to make it to the moonthat honor belongs to Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, who took the first steps on the. The omission of the word changed the meaning of the phrase entirely, taking it beyond a statement from one individual and turning it into a universal statement. Nasa claimed that the word was unheard and unrecorded in the transmission because of static. When Armstrong returned from space, he claimed he had been misquoted and the tiny word "a" had been omitted from the offical version of the mission transcript. Theorists even go as far as implicating filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, claiming he helped the US government create a space-like set using the impressive special effects employed in his 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.Did Armstrong really mean to say "a man" instead of just "man"? The Soviet Union’s space programme was well on its way to a successful moon mission but the Americans couldn’t let that happen, so they faked a landing. Of the 21 hours and 36 minutes spent on the Moons surface, Armstrong and Aldrin spent 2.5 hours outside the module collecting data, setting up experiments and taking pictures. Some believe the US government was so hell-bent on winning the Cold War they pulled a fast one on everyone. Armstrong was the first man to step onto the Moon, followed 20 minutes later by Aldrin. DESPERATION FOR DOMINANCE DURING THE COLD WAR Here are five reasons why people still believe the US government lied about the moon landing: 1. It’s been 50 years since that momentous occasion but it seems there are still many conspiracy theorists who believe their spacecraft, Apollo 11, never left Earth.Ī recent YouGov poll found one in six Britons believe the moon landing was probably staged, while 10% of Americans and 57% of Russians think Apollo 11 never went to the moon. On July 20 1969, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins became the first men to land on the moon.
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