"Better if he had said something natural like, "Jesus, here we are.""
— Edmund Hillary

January 1, 1970

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On Neil Armstrong’s famous first words on stepping on the surface of the moon, "That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." The Sunday Times [London] (21 July 1974)