“Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?” So said Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) to the authors of the 1986 book Chariots of Fire. It seems so characteristic of the man, to admit his human frailty concerning something so immortal as his famous line: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Fifty-thousand years from now, if the human race is around or relevant, Armstrong and that line will still be remembered. Only it should have been: “That’s one small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind.” It changes the meaning, in a way. But we get it. The first man on the moon. A simple step off the bottom of a ladder for Neil Armstrong, decades of work – if not the whole of human history – to get him to the moon in the first place. Now that’s a real moment in history, and in what seems to be typical Armstrong self deprecation, he admitted that though he wanted to say “a man” it didn’t come out that way. Human beings are really like that. They make mistakes, big and small. Armstrong was very much a human being, among the best. We should rejoice in what he was able to do and that Neil Armstrong was the one to be the first man on the moon.