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Subject: One small step
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 18:30:17 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 18:30:17 1984
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"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.