The question, “what can you say when you step off something?” tells you almost everything you need to know about Armstrong: Everyone else on earth was thinking in terms of stepping on something — the surface of another world — while the pilot was thinking, and still thinks today, in terms of stepping off something — a fragile, thin-skinned, dangerous, badass boat nobody had ever flown before. —I’m a Man, Yes I am (Begging to Differ)
I’ve been looking for a good reason to blog the news about the Australian hobbyist who found Armstrong’s missing “a”.
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