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One small step for a man, then another small step for a man, and another.
What he really said was, "That's one small step for a man, but one giant leap for mankind".
If a Jewish astronaut had been the first man on the moon, would he have said, "That's one small step for a man, and there's parking"?
A SMALL step for a man, a giant leap for mankind: that's the phrase grandly applied to the first moon landing.
As historic lines go, it didn't have quite the ring of "One small step for a man," yet Gary Thuerk's impact cannot be disputed.
(No matter how many rehearsals for the magic moment, even a canned cosmic quote can be flubbed in nerve-racking real time. Remember Neil Armstrong's "one small step for a man").
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Where was USC? Did Neil Armstrong really say, 'That's one small step for a man'?
For politicians watching in Europe, this was one small step for an anonymous man, but one giant leap for the continent.
Stratos was easy, derivative and horribly corporate, a small step for man and a giant leap for marketing.
Their emergence out of the spaceship is not exactly a "one small step for man" scenario, an MTV moon-flag-plant guitar riff.
I drove out this morning to see that although the root problems do not appear to have been addressed, and the fix is therefore only temporary, this is a small step for man as we await a giant leap from the new mayoral administration.
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