Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!David.Smith@CMU-CS-IUS From: David.Smith%CMU-CS-IUS@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: One small step Message-ID: <16506@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 18:30:17 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16506 Posted: Tue Feb 7 18:30:17 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 06:39:53 EST Lines: 15 "That may have been one small step for Neil, but it was one heck of a big leap for me." -- Bruce McCandless, upon shoving off untethered from Challenger (My apologies for any transcription errors.) P.S. I have heard several replays of Armstrong's words, and have never been able to make out the "a". He probably just slightly flubbed his line. But there are precedents for correcting a speech for the written record. P.P.S. I can't remember his words, but Bryant Gumbel said some inane thing to the effect that the spacewalk was dangerous because the astronaut was not being held up by the shuttle.