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...Neil Armstrong meant to say "That's one small step for a man," adapting the phrase from a children's playground game. Instead, because of intense radio static, Mission Control in Houston--and the rest of mankind--heard, "That's one small step for ... man, one giant leap for mankind," which became one of the most famous sentences of the 20th century. If the audio failed, the images were indelible, as a camera mounted on the base of the lunar-landing vehicle beamed back the otherworldly milestone. Ohio-born Armstrong, then 38, had become the first earthling on the moon...
...addition to Jodi, Hayes carries two interns, Scott Lucas and Rick Armstrong. There are now four people to provide assistance when there were none before...
...turn of events that changes everything by the time the sun goes down. Some of those days we remember by the numbers alone--not only 9/11 but also days like Nov. 22, 1963. Others we remember by a single dramatic step after years of preparation, as when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, or by thousands of simultaneous steps, as when Allied soldiers scrambled onto the beaches of Normandy...
Long out of office, Richard Nixon mused one day about that era and the importance of our space achievements. Nixon was President when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, a legacy of sorts from Kennedy. "Just think," he said in that interview, "how miserable it would have been had we not had the space success when we were in the midst of Vietnam, then Watergate and all that...
...because he was divorced. She rebounded smartly, collecting a circle of posh friends--including Peter Sellers, with whom she spent long evenings around the piano with a cigarette holder and cocktail shaker--and making a second home on the Caribbean island of Mustique. A 1960 marriage to photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, later Lord Snowdon, ended in divorce in 1978. But before it did, she carried on a five-year caprice with landscape gardener Roddy Llewellyn, who was 17 years younger. The British press was inflamed. Some years later, Princess Diana picked up the torch. --By Richard Lacayo...