Hey lets get someone in Australia to prove it!

That will fool them for sure! Then they will never suspect it was us MwuaHa ha HAA!



I'm pretty sure that Nasa has taken ribbing about the little gafe in the speech that Neil Armstrong gave, when he landed on the moon, for several decades. In his defence he was on the "moon" and I am more than willing to give the guy some slack for missing a word.

I'm sure you know his statement "...one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind." (yeah, he kind of just said mankind twice!).

I suppose the reason I am having such a hard time with this report is that this is not the first time I have seen those famous words being re-worked.

My Nephew had this book, you see, and in it there was a nice little write up about what was said when Neil "the apparently incredibly fast talking" Armstrong stepped off the ladder, " That's one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind.". Amazing you say? How did the writers of a childrens book know that a mere 8 years later that they would actually prove that he did use the "a"?

I personally don't know this to be a fact, but I'm pretty sure the writers of this childrens science book didn't come from Australia and they didn't have access to the original tapes or 21st century software that can apparently make words appear out of static either.

Maybe it's just the conspiracy theorist in me, but it sure sounds like a little bit like the Americans rewriting history. I'm waiting too find out that the "Australian" scientist is actually from Boise, Idaho!