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After Neil Armstrong walked down the lunar module ladder he stood on the footpad of the lunar module for almost 3 minutes describing thegeneral terrainand how the lunar module was sitting on the moon. When he finally stepped off the footpad, he said "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."
The "[a]" is because in the transmission from the Moon, the "a" wasn't heard but it was later revealed after some people had removed the noise and other stuff that he did in fact say "a man". Armstrong himself always contended that he uttered the "a" because as he said, the sentence is nonsense without it. There were many short breaks in the transmissions from the moon to the earth. It's just unfortunate that it happened to Armstrong as he was taking man's first steps on another celestial body.

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