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On 2002-11-15 08:47, JimO wrote:
To compress events, Neil Armstrong's comments about making "One small step" have often been matched with video of him dropping down from the Lunar Module ladder. Actually, he landed on one of the vehicle's footpads, made several comments, jumped back up on the ladder to make sure he could, jumped down a second time, discussed his impressions of his surroundings, and only after that did he make the "small step" onto the moondust. So the rearranged video completely misrepresents what he meant by "one small step". ....
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I'm glad that someone with some pull is as ticked off about this as I am.
Getting back to the original website, it also says that Armstrong walked on the Moon at 4.17 pm. That's wrong: the Moon LANDING was around that time. Neil didn't step onto the Moon until 10:56 PM EDT (which I remember in part because it was well after my bedtime, but I got to stay up late to watch it).
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