They Found His "A", Eh?

Arguably one of the most famous statements in history, spoken by astronaut Neil Armstrong as he jumped from his spacecraft to the moon's surface, was thought to be flubbed...until now. According to Times Online:

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” they heard him say as he dropped from the ladder of his spacecraft to make the first human footprint on the lunar surface.

But from the moment he said it, and for 37 years since, debate has raged over whether the Nasa astronaut might have fluffed his lines.

Now, after almost four decades, the spaceman has been vindicated. Using high-tech sound analysis techniques, an Australian computer expert has rediscovered the missing “a” in Mr Armstrong’s famous quote.

I'm glad for Armstrong. It must have sucked going through life believing that you misspoke the opening line of one of the most momentous occassions in modern history as 500 million people looked on. As the Times puts it, that's "one giant relief" for him.