{"id":131457,"date":"2016-09-08T09:42:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/08\/so-what-was-the-second-thing-neil-armstrong-said.html"},"modified":"2016-09-08T09:42:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:42:30","slug":"so-what-was-the-second-thing-neil-armstrong-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/08\/so-what-was-the-second-thing-neil-armstrong-said.html","title":{"rendered":"So what was the SECOND thing Neil Armstrong said?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After his famous &quot;That&#39;s one small step for man &#8230; one giant leap for mankind&quot;[1], what did he say next?<\/p>\n<p>Well, bear in mind that people didn&#39;t really <i>know<\/i> what the surface of the moon would be like. Probes had landed, but there was still concern over moon dust, dust pits that could swallow a man, etc. So basically he went on to talk about the lunar dirt he was walking around in.<\/p>\n<p>A bit more prosaic, but much more scientific.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>[1] Or &quot;&#8230; <i>a<\/i> man &#8230;&quot; That&#39;s what Armstrong said he said, but the &quot;a&quot; was not audible. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/06\/04\/tech\/armstrong-quote\/\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/06\/04\/tech\/armstrong-quote\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Today I Found Out<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23NeilArmstrong\">#NeilArmstrong<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23History\">#History<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23Moonwalk\">#Moonwalk<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23NASA\">#NASA<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23Space\">#Space<\/a> NASA <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23apollo11\">#apollo11<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/106516818349294501849\/albums\/6327913069788533761\/6327913071683990050'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-iF706CIRKSU\/V9FDaXdGciI\/AAAAAAAAB1s\/pAmjgB0HHAMMMt7Nj2Pvs8F64IUyN8EuwCJoC\/20c636f6-7c4a-44c2-96ed-11cdc09a8cc8?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/NZyixS6RidQ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his famous &quot;That&#39;s one small step for man &#8230; one giant leap for mankind&quot;[1], what did he say next? Well, bear in mind that people didn&#39;t really know what the surface of the moon would be like. Probes had landed, but there was still concern over moon dust, dust pits that could swallow a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/08\/so-what-was-the-second-thing-neil-armstrong-said.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So what was the SECOND thing Neil Armstrong said?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[657,945,994,470,231,471],"class_list":["post-131457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-apollo11","tag-history","tag-moonwalk","tag-nasa","tag-neilarmstrong","tag-space-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20c636f6-7c4a-44c2-96ed-11cdc09a8cc8imgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29964,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/rip-neil-armstrong.html","url_meta":{"origin":131457,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Neil Armstrong","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 25-Aug-12 1:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A small step for any man, 43 years after his giant leap for mankind.Reshared post from +Breaking NewsNeil Armstrong, the 1st man on the moon, has died at age 82+NBC News reports that Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday, weeks after\u00a0heart surgery and\u00a0days after\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29967,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/the-stars-my-destination.html","url_meta":{"origin":131457,"position":1},"title":"The stars my destination","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 25-Aug-12 5:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wil Wheaton on the passing of Neil Armstrong. 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