[net.space] One small step

David.Smith%CMU-CS-IUS@sri-unix.UUCP (02/08/84)

"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.