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Lunar Module (LM) pilot Buzz Aldrin spoke first as the LM settled in the dust. He gave this status report: "Contact light! OK; engine stop. A-see ay out of detent. Mode control both auto. Descent engine command override off. Engine arm off. Four-thirteen is 'IN'... "

As Pilot Aldrin gave his report, Armstrong repeated these comments: "Shutdown. Out of detent, auto ..." and then he said "Engine arm is off." This all took place inside the LM while it was on the moon and well before Armstrong actually left the module.

For those of us listening on the radios in our schools at the time, those are the words we remember well. Not the often quoted "one small step for man"

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