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By Richard Gray
It is the most famous and disputed quote in history. Now, three months after Neil Armstrong’s death, it has emerged that the first man on the Moon wrote the words to mark the moment he stepped onto the lunar surface months in advance and had always intended to include the notorious missing “a” in the speech.
Armstrong, who was 82 when he died in August, maintained he decided on the line after landing the spacecraft on the surface of the moon and had said: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” The millions of people around the world who watched entranced as he stepped off the ladder onto the dusty lunar surface, however, did not hear the crucial “a” in the phrase – sparking decades of debate over its meaning.
However, a series of new and rare interviews with his family to be broadcast on BBC Two on Sunday have revealed that Armstrong scripted his historic words several months before the launch....
Neil Armstrong – First Man on the Moon will be broadcast on BBC Two at 9pm on Sunday 30 December
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