"One small step for a man...

...a giant leap for mankind." Famous quote by Neil Armstrong as he stepped on to the moon. I recall various people at the time saying this was a very inane quote considering this monumental achievement, although it seems to me that it has stood the test of time. Can someone come up with a better quote? Two parts: 1-Very serious, a statement that would go down in history as a supremely appropriate remark; and 2-Funny, flip, irreverent, something Jay Leno might say.
 

Blackwood

Banned
Or better yet, Jay Leno on the moon.

Seriously, though, let's have a shot at it:

"Mankind has risen to unprecedented heights, reaching the heavens themselves, looking into the eyes of God...all before those damn commies did." :D
 
kinda remind me that little story I found on the internet

TAMPA, FL -- When Apollo Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," statement but followed it up with several remarks to the other astronauts and Mission Control.


Just before he re-entered the lander, however, he made the enigmatic remark, "Good luck Mr. Gorsky." Many people at NASA thought it was a remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut.


However, upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space programs. Over the years, many people questioned Armstrong as to what the "Good luck Mr. Gorsky" statement meant, but Armstrong always just smiled.


This past Monday, June 27, 2005 at the University of Tampa in Florida, while answering questions following a speech, a student brought up the 36-year-old question to Armstrong. This time he finally responded.


Armstrong explained, "When I was a kid, I was playing baseball [with a friend] in the backyard. He hit a fly ball that landed in the yard in front of my neighbor's bedroom windows. My neighbors were Mr. & Mrs. Gorsky. As I leaned down to pick up the ball, I heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at her husband, "You want oral sex?! You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"


At this remark, the audience - comprised primarily of college students - began laughing hysterically.
 
Actually he left the first "a" out, which makes it very inane.

No, he actually said it right, and the news networks had a transcript of the proper line, but when he said it a bust of static covered that "a" up, and as everyone was listening live, that was what everybody heard and then repeated...

Simon ;)
 

Jasen777

Donor
No, he actually said it right, and the news networks had a transcript of the proper line, but when he said it a bust of static covered that "a" up, and as everyone was listening live, that was what everybody heard and then repeated...

Simon ;)

So they say...
 
...a giant leap for mankind." Famous quote by Neil Armstrong as he stepped on to the moon. I recall various people at the time saying this was a very inane quote considering this monumental achievement, although it seems to me that it has stood the test of time. Can someone come up with a better quote? Two parts: 1-Very serious, a statement that would go down in history as a supremely appropriate remark; and 2-Funny, flip, irreverent, something Jay Leno might say.
Could've been worse

Pete Conrad's immortal line

Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me.
Note:

Conrad was due to be back-up commander of the first flight of the full Saturn V/Apollo into high earth orbit. When NASA created the Apollo 8 mission both prime and back-up crews were switched. Had it not been for this, Conrad would have been in line to command Apollo 11.
 

randomkeith

Banned
"One small step......what the hell is that, get back in the pod get back, AAARARRRRRRRGGGGGGG"

Transmition lost.

That would have been a far more memorable line.
 
"We, humans, have come to this place as explorers. Not conquerers or warriors. We are here for one thing and one thing only, the relentless pursuir of knowledge."

*Trip*

"Buzz! My leg, it's broken!"
 
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