Background: 尼爾·阿姆斯特郎 (Neil Armstrong) 是 1969 年第一位登上月球的宇航員。當時有無數人聽到了他從月球上發回的的廣播講話錄音。其中就包括了下面這句話 It’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind. 這句話成為了名言，不過有些人說，句子有語法錯誤。現在一項新的研究對此進行了重新考證。

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Neil Armstrong:

"It's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind."

Or should that have been, "One small step for a man"?

Neil Armstrong has always said that he thought that that's what he said and maybe the vital 'a' got lost in a crackle of static.

Now researchers analysing recently released digitally-enhanced recordings of the entire Apollo 11 mission have confirmed that he did not say the word 'a'.

But a linguistic analysis of the way in which he spoke suggested that he intended to say 'a' and that the first words spoken on the moon were spontaneous and not memorised from a written script.

The researchers also argue that although the expression was not strictly correct its rhythm and symmetry poetically capture the sense and mood of one of humanity's most epic moments.

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