BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon: "Neil Armstrong missed out an 'a' and did not say 'one small step for a man' when he set foot on the Moon in 1969, a linguistic analysis has confirmed.

The researchers show for the first time that he intended to say 'a man' and that the 'a' may have been lost because he was under pressure.

They say that although the phrase was not strictly correct, it was poetic."