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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]The UK media is running with lot 1161, the Armstrong "one small step..." inscribed flight plan page, as something -- at least in my opinion -- more than it is. [list][][i]The Sun[/i] [URL=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2909169/Flight-plan-proves-Armstrong-meant-to-say-A.html]Moon flight plan 'A' real find[/URL] <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]The original flight plan from the first moon landing has emerged -- proving that astronaut Neil Armstrong had intended to say: "One small step for 'A' man, one giant leap for mankind."[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> [][i]Sunday Express[/i] [URL=http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/165443/One-small-note-proves-astronaut-Neil-Armstrong-really-fluffed-his-lines]One Small Note Proves Astronaut Neil Armstrong Really Fluffed His Lines[/URL] <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]It is one of the most-quoted statements of all time. But the debate over whether pioneer astronaut Neil Armstrong fluffed his lines while taking the first steps on the moon was finally settled yesterday.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/list] To me, this claim -- that this document in any way proves what Armstrong said or did not say on the Moon, is nonsense on two accounts: [list=1][]For many years Armstrong has said he intended to say "for 'a' man," thus there is no great revelation by him having written the same; and, []This document doesn't prove he didn't say "for 'a' man" and that the 'a' was lost in transmission. I'm not claiming he did or did not, but either way, to try to claim that this document solves that one way or another is pure rubbish.[/list] I have to believe that this is the result of shoddy journalism rather than someone associated with this lot pitching an embellished story. Unfortunately, these types of stories have a tendency to snowball. There are other issues with the stories, too. "The original flight plan from the first moon landing has emerged," writes The Sun, as if other copies of the flight plan do not exist, or as if Armstrong's words were written in the flight plan as a script. Worse, it implies that this was a flown flight plan page, or that it belonged to/was used by Armstrong, neither of which can be sustained by the provenance offered. The Sun also writes, "Armstrong said in his autobiography he has never written the phrase down but experts believe he must have forgotten about writing it directly after his return to Earth." I would really like to know who the "experts" are who feel confident questioning Armstrong's memory. I'm not saying the inscription is not real, but making the casual claim that Armstrong simply forgot seems more in place with an eBay lot description than with an auction of this caliber.[/B][/QUOTE]
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