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.