✅ True. Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong flubbed his historic 'one small step' remark as he became the first man to set foot on the surface of the moon. Here's what he said:
, and the Germans know as: the “wit of the staircase,” those clever remarks or cutting rejoinders that only come to mind once it’s too late for us to deliver them — literally, as we’re headed down the stairs and out of the house. English also lacks an expression to describe the antithesis of, those occasions when one has a perfect remark carefully prepared in advance but fails to deliver it properly.
Neil A. Armstrong, the Apollo 11 commander, had said that one small word was omitted in the official version of the historic utterance he made he stepped on the moon 11 days ago.When Mr. Armstrong saw the quotation — “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” — in the mission transcript after his return to earth, he said he was misquoted, it was reported yesterday.
However, for the dozens of journalists in Houston, the uncertainty left them feeling their own version of space sickness. The journalists from the major wire services and newspapers gave up watching the live broadcast and huddled in the press room debating what to do. They decided that they would agree on what they heard and all file the same quote.