Hansen interviewed Dean Armstrong for "First Man" as well, but Neil's brother did not say anything then about his knowing the quote ahead of time. "He had replied that he was still thinking it over." "On the way to the moon, Mike and I had asked Neil what he was going to say when he stepped out on the moon," astronaut Buzz Aldrin told Hansen. "That was what he told me clearly and on tape."Īs further evidence, "First Man" also quotes Armstrong's first wife Janet as having had "absolutely no idea what her husband would say when he stepped onto the moon." "He told me quite specifically and emphatically that he did not pre-plan what he would say and came up with the phrase only after the landing," Hansen wrote on Facebook. To Hansen, the astronaut's own words leave no room for debate. "I didn't think it was particularly important, but other people obviously did." Īrmstrong recounted the same course of events in other interviews and during public lectures held before and after the research for his biography.
"It just sort of evolved during the period that I was doing the procedures of the practice takeoff and the EVA prep and all the other activities that were on our flight schedule at the time," Armstrong told Hansen. "Once on the surface and realizing that the moment was at hand, fortunately I had some hours to think about it after getting there," Armstrong said. Armstrong" (2005, Simon and Schuster), Armstrong told Hansen that he came up with the quote as he completed the post-landing checklist and prepared for humanity's first moonwalk. He might avoid or evade certain questions and answers, but he never outright lied."
"Neil was the sort of man who never told lies. "I spent a great deal of time talking about this issue during my near-60 hours of interviews for my biography of him, 'First Man,'" Hansen said, describing his research into the origin of the "one small step" quote.
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