To be serious for a moment (which is boring as hell).......A friend and I were discussing this just today and if NASA had had their druthers, Armstrong would not have been the first there. He was an engineer first and a test pilot second and not the kind of the guy (then or now) that you want to make history shattering remarks. Were it totally up to him there would have been no prepared phrase as he viewed that as crap whereas the flight was foremost.

Any number of astronauts would have been better in serving history but that's not how the rotation worked. And there could have been some far worse like Gus Grissom had he lived. Gus might have jumped off the landing pad, thrown a finger to the sky, and yelled, "Fuckin' A right Bubba! Up yours Russia!" So maybe Neil was okay..........



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