In 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to walk on the moon, uttering the immortal phrase, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Or did he? Previously suppressed footage shows that Armstrong's reaction was a great deal more uninhibited than history suggests, and that a hasty editing job was needed to prepare the astronaut's moment of glory for broadcast.

So here, for the first time, is the unedited NASA film from the triumphant Apollo 11 mission.

http://www.blogjam.com/neil_armstrong/

Absolutely hilarious

NOTE ADDED BY THE BAD ASTRONOMER: that link contains very strong language. Not for kids.

Bob R. Roberts! We went to the gosh darn moon, after all!

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Reading it in "The Onion" is funnier than hearing it.

I don't know if the BA is going to appreciate this.

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Looks like at least two people need to read the FAQ... This is a family site and children frequent it also Slappy and um3k!

I second ToSeek's comment.

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Please put a warning on links to sites with "bad" language. And um3k, watch your language. First and only warning.

Maybe I have a bad sense of humour, but I didn't find it funny, let alone hilarious :-?

In a society where some people can't make a complete sentance without the F word, I can't believe there are people who think it is funny to string together a bunch of F words and call it humor.

Now if someone would put together a "Good Luck Mr. Gorkey" audio clip of Armstrongs last words on the moon, if done correctly, might be funny.

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I find this particularly unfunny, as any swearing on the air is considered a gross breach of radio etiquette among pilots. In fact, Jim Lovell has stated that the excessive use of profanity was the one incorrect detail that bugged him about Apollo 13.

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Haven't seen the South Park movie have you? I think the swear-to-normal word ratio was 1:1.

Just ettiquette for pilots huh? On the railroad we get monkey-stomped for rule breaches like that.

I never said it was "just" for pilots. I mentioned pilots because they are the relevant group in this case. I'm sure most organizations that use radio communications have rules prohibiting bad language on the air.

[edited for punctuation]

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"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor

I thought it was funny, though it does need the warning.
I don't think anyone was implying that Armstrong actually said this. And I'm always amazed by the cool, calm voices of pilots you hear when they play "black box" tapes, even to the end.
Maybe this is why we haven't gone back to the moon, today's young astronauts couldn't keep the radio traffic clean after all that South Park.

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Wasn't there an incident on Apollo 10, where either Gene Cernan or John Young let loose with some "colorful metafors"?

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It was funny for the first five seconds and then the joke wore thin. They didn't vary the expletive.

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That was the Funny Part ...

He was Obviously Really Excited ...

It kinda Ruined his Vocabulary, is all.

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Correct.

Just after the LM staging (discarding the descent stage), the Ascent Stage went into a sudden spin. The cause was a mis-set switch to do with the rendezvous rader (IIRC). Tom Stafford recovered control in under 10 seconds, but someone (Stafford or Cernan) used a word related to descent from canines. NASA apparently received letters of complaint about the language.

However, as we don't know how many letters of complaint there were, it may well be there weren't many. And given the number of people who would've heard the outburst, I think we can safely dismiss the complaints as coming from the fringiest fringe (so to speak).

There was another incident where one of the Apollo astronauts used what was considered "colorful" language at the time, in describing the effects of the orange juice they were drinking on his digestive tract. Most of it's pretty mild by today's standards, but folks were shocked back then.

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Got old after a few seconds. Kinda lame, really - could have been done a lot better.

And that sort of stuff belongs on FWIS, not on the BABB.

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I think that was John Young and Charlie Duke on Apollo 16. Young seems to have a knack for getting himself into trouble.

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If I remember correctly that was Apollo 16, and the astronauts at the time did not realise the comm channels were open. As far as they knew they were chatting among themselves.

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