His ecstasy is palpable it is the face of a man so clearly awe-struck that all he can do is grin and cry. Aldrin snapped this shot of a teary-eyed Armstrong moments after he returned to the spacecraft and removed his helmet. The look of pure joy, accomplishment and disbelief is just a testament to what the mankind can achieve. That’s why this photo, rarely seen, is such an impeccable piece of history. We’re often subjected to the standard shots taken by Buzz Aldrin of the grey, rocky surface with a few faceless spacemen standing still and posing. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to ever walk on the moon, starting a new era on the space exploration. No mistake.Neil Armstrong immediately after his, and mankind’s, very first moon walk, 1969. THAT is history, Benjamin, as it happened, not as it was intended. Read more: –The-proof-Neil-Armstrong-got-famous-One-small-step-man-Moon-landing-line-WRONG.html#ixzz21Q3QXv6rĪgain: definitely no “a” between “for” and “man”. Of ‘for’ and the ‘m’ of ‘man’ running together – proving, they told theīBC, that there was simply no room for an ‘a’.” Instead, their analysis of a voice print spectograph showed the ‘r’ Pronounce his ‘a’s in a unique way – but that he definitely did not Manual, and forensic linguist John Olsson concluded that Armstrong does The long-running debate has finally been settled, however: and it has proved Armstrong wrong.ĭr Chris Riley, author of the new Haynes book Apollo 11, An Owner’s Researchers claimed perhaps the ‘a’ was lost in transmission, or that it simply could not be heard because of his Ohio accent. On returning home after the Moon landing, Armstrong claimed he thought he had uttered the ‘a’ in the sentence. One giant leap forīut linguistic analysis has proven that Armstrongĭropped the ‘a’, instead uttering the immortal: ‘One small step for man. He became the first man to set foot on the Moon in 1969, the astronautīelieved he had said: ‘One small step for a man. “It is one of the most famous phrases in history – and now experts have proven that Neil Armstrong got it wrong. (More humble than thou art, might be far more strategically wise! )ĭespite what historians and the man himself claim was was intended, surely we are obliged to go with the original unadulterated evidence. Champions of democracy, Ha! Well the real point is clear, if it were put to a vote, you Americans wouldn’t last ten minutes! Being just 5.7% of the world’s population clearly means a smallish minority. Some 380-odd million Americans verses the rest of the 6,620-odd million that occupy the planet kinda puts it in perspective. Such people as these are not ‘Amerocentric’ they are more like feeble-minded jingoistic xenophobes. What I am really against is stupid narrow-minded Americans that think the rest of the world (or the universe) is second to them or that they believe they are the only people on the planet. You have to have pride and serve the best interests in the country where you are born - a cohesion that holds the population together. (Americans ought to go back to the Moon just to clean-up their own stinking mess!)Īctually I’m not against Amerocentrism.

Stuffed our planet, now stuffing the moon. I see it as the first picture on the moon, with the white bag, just as environmental vandalism. More than just a page in the history books, it marks a shining moment for all of humanity when the combined ingenuity and courage of many, many people succeeded in the daunting task of, in President Kennedy’s words from May 25, 1961, “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.”Īctually, I would comment that it shows the ‘couldn’t care less’ attitude with the environment. Today is the 43rd anniversary of the first lunar landing. Most of the photos they brought back have been high-quality scanned by Kipp Teague and are available online at the Apollo Image Gallery. The third man on the mission, Michael Collins, remained in lunar orbit piloting the command module Columbia.Īrmstrong, as were all the Apollo mission astronauts, was trained in the use of a modified Hasselblad 500 EL camera, which took wonderfully detailed images on large-format film. The image above is the first photo taken by Armstrong after exiting Eagle, the landing module - and the first photograph ever taken by a person standing on the surface of another world.Īfter this image, Armstrong took several more images of the surrounding landscape before fellow astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” After speaking these historic words at 10:56 EDT on July 20, 1969, marking the moment that humanity first placed a foot on a world other than its own, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong began his work documenting the lunar surface before him.

First man on the moon picture