Who said one giant leap for mankind

Skip Navigation. Key Points. Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. Armstrong, who died in at age 82, said he came up with the statement himself. It cited how "the truest emotion But it, you know, was a pretty simple statement, talking about stepping off something.

It was what it was. Your Navy. By The Associated Press. But then, in , computer programmer Peter Shann Ford might have vindicated Armstrong. Ford downloaded the audio recording of the moon man's words from a NASA website and analyzed the statement with software that allows disabled people to communicate via computers using their nerve impulses. In a graphical representation of sound waves of the famous sentence, Ford said he found evidence that the missing "a" had been spoken after all: It was a millisecond-long bump of sound between "for" and "man" that would have been too brief for human ears to hear.

NASA has also stood by the moonwalker. Armstrong, who died in at age 82, said he came up with the statement himself. It cited how "the truest emotion But it, you know, was a pretty simple statement, talking about stepping off something. Why, it wasn't a very complex thing.