What excacly did neil armstrong mean when he said "that's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind"

Question

Im trying to figure out what neil armstrong meant when he said "that's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind". I don't get why he said that.

Answer 1

What he meant was that physically speaking... to step onto the moon from his well engineered spacecraft was simple... but that his being able to do it.... (what got him there).... was of such magnitude that mankind as a whole would never be the same again.



And, he was right. Think about it. If it didn't happen, our military and scientific knowledge would be a fraction of what it is today. It wasn't just a small step for Neil it was a profound and meaningful step for mankind.

Answer 2

Why did he say it? Or was that what he actually said?

"One step for man, one giant leap for mankind"



Theres is a huge debate whether or not he actually said it. Some people think he said "THAT'S one step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

- but tht would have been wrong.

Saying the words man and mankind both mean humans in general. The real way to have said it is ' That's one small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind.'

most of the people who heard it thought it was said ' one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind' -it was published in newspapers like tht too.

but books say 'a man'.

there was a guy who spent a great deal of time looking at old lunar film footage- for a movie- then he found tht recording of neil. it was old so he cleaned it up- According to Reinert, "cleaning it up does not truly answer the question. Armstrong did not clearly say `a man' but there's definitely a beat there.” Armstrong has said that he may have mumbled. NASA states that he said ‘a man’.



he thought of these words while he was on the ship- n then decided to say them as he was getting off. tht was PROBABLY the case. but you never know- he could've been a wise man...



Now to answer WHY he said it- its probably because-

the meaning behind it was tht- HE only took a small step to get off of the moon.

but for the WORLD & NASA it was a huge step in history.



thats basically the meaaning behind it and the debate they have about it.



**don't forget about Buzz Aldrin- he probably wood've been the first man on the moon if he wasn't nice. lol- he probably said- "go head neil, you go first." **



ALSO **the third guy in the Apollo 11 was Michael Collins (his birthday is on halloween)- he orbited the moon while they had fun**



hope i helped (love this topic),

coco

Answer 3

One Leap For Mankind

Answer 4

What Neil Armstrong meant by that was, by stepping onto the moon, it was just one small step for him--a man--but it was a giant leap for all of mankind because one of our kind set foot on another world. It was metaphorical.

Answer 5

A small step for him personally as he stepped down from the lunar module, but for mankind it was a huge step as at that time as far as we know nobody had ever visited another planet/star.



It's still a conspiracy theory that they never actually went to the moon and it was all staged.

Answer 6

it was to be meant that one small step for a man was he was the first to place his feet on the moon,and one giant leap for mankind because he new then that they could go to the moon and back from there on into the future for further exploration.

Answer 7

because it was a great breakthrough being on the moon. it was a small step he took (walking) but a huge one for the people who have finally managed to get a man to the moon and back, alive!

Answer 8

it means that mankind has made a big advance in technology, that things would soon be changing just because of that.

Answer 9

The first step was his, and for all mankind.

Answer 10

it`s Qs like this that make me fear for mankinds future

Answer 11

here is some more of what N Armstrong said on that day..............https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20071113023630AAX3yGF.....try figure that as well !!!!!

Answer 12

duh. im sorry. i just thought it was pretty obvious.