Time to re-write those history books!
Neil Armstrong claims that he was misquoted. It appears that he's right, too.
The first man to walk on the moon has always maintained that what he said when he set foot on its surface was in fact, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." That version makes better sense, grammatically and otherwise, than the familar "one small step for man." Armstrong blames a transmission glich for the loss of the word "a."
An analysis of recordings of the statement made using new computer software seems to back him up.
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However, that quote is just modernist garbage. It is probably what Professor Weston said when he first set foot on Malacandra.
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What matters is that "mankind" has taken a giant leap! This ranking of importance of "mankind" over individual men leads quickly into dangeous territories such as eugenics.