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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
Neil Armstrong said, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Apparently, he messed it up. He meant to say, "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." If you think about it, this one makes far more sense. Maybe the excitement of stepping onto the moon got to him. Either that or he was thinking, 'Crap, I hope get off this rock.'  |
That's not what he said at all. When he was interviewed by Walter Cronkite in 1979 on the 10th anniversary he told him that what he said was:
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for Manny Klein."
Cronkite of course was taken aback and asked him who the hell Manny Klein was.
Armstrong answered:
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When I was growing up in Ohio, there was a time when we lived in an old brownstone walk up with incredibly thin walls. Our next-door neighbours were the Kleins. They used to argue night and day, incessantly going at each other. I particularly remember one cold night in November when I clearly heard Ms. Klein yell at her husband, "Manny, there will be a man on the moon before I put that in my mouth!"
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