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Note: As some commenters have pointed out, Armstrong didn't flub the line – the vowel was lost in transmission. Score one for old-fashioned tech! Like hand-colored photographs and vinyl records, space communications are much improved by a few scratches and pops.

What I find more dammmmming, is the fact that he had a famous line to recall and utter at the moment he stepped off the ladder in the first place.  Why not have it just be organic.  Why have a rehersal?  Why have a line at all.  Let's just enjoy the moment and hope we don't sink in quick sand or step in a cow pie. 

It was all filmed for show, to win the cold war and beat the russians.