Still after so many years, it is under debate, what Neil Armstrong said after stepping his first feet on the moon. According to him he was not heard properly on the Earth. He was grammatically fumbled: “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.” Armstrong, however, forced that he said, “That’s one small step for ‘a’ man.”. And word a remained unheard by people. He, in a press conference in 1999 said, “The ‘a’ was intended. However, in 2006, a computer analysis confirmed, it indeed was an intended ‘a’ that was said by Armstrong.

Peter Shann Ford, an Australian computer programmer, after checking sound waves on software analysis detected a wave that would have been the missing “a” and it lasted for 35 milliseconds that was too quick to be listen by anyone.  Armstrong and experts at the Smithsonian Institution checked out the evidence and were confirmed about it as stated by Smithsonian space curator Roger Launius. Later on Armstrong said, “I find the technology interesting and useful” and NASA also stick to the statement of its moonman.

“If Neil Armstrong says there was an ‘a,’ then as far as we’re concerned, there was ‘a,’” NASA spokesman Michael Cabbage said.