One small word . . .

Published on 31/08/2012 00:00

My family and I were sitting in a bus in New Mexico, when one of the border guards said: “Our boys are on the Moon,” so I recall exactly where I was when these historic events took place.

My recollection differs from Dr John Cameron’s (Letters, 30 August) in that, later that day and ever since, I have thought Neil Armstrong was meant to say: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

A report in the New York Times forgave him for seemingly fluffing his lines by reporting that interference in the transmission obliterated the “a”. Not that it matters. The legend lives on.

George Cooper

Westgate

Leslie, Fife