Sunday, October 01, 2006

I like it the old way, actually...

Neil Armstrong's famous quote on the Moon has been revised.

Some historians and critics have dogged Armstrong for not saying the more dramatic and grammatically correct, ``One small step for a man ...'' in the version he transmitted to NASA's Mission Control. Without the missing ``a,'' Armstrong essentially said, ``One small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind.''

The famous astronaut has maintained he intended to say it properly and believes he did. Thanks to some high-tech sound-editing software, computer programmer Peter Shann Ford might have proved Armstrong right.

Next up: editing Julius Ceasar, Oscar Wilde, and Winston Churchill.

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