NationStates Jolt Archive

Well, yeah. We did. Actually the title's just the bait. Here's the switch:

Neil Armstrong flubbed the line "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." (See here (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/onesmall.asp)).

So... was it a big deal? The line remains one of the best-known spoken sentences in modern history.

No. The legend of the statement would have been just the same if he didn't screw it up. The only thing that would be different is that there wouldn't be people 40 years later discussing the grammatical error of his statement as if it matters.