Originally Posted by Dart


Yes, planting the flag was scripted, as were his words as he stepped off the lander....



Armstrong stated emphatically that no one told him what to say stepping off the LM and that he came up with those words after landing, so no I don't believe those words were at all scripted. On Apollo 12 Pete Conrad won a bet with a reporter who claimed that higher ups would not allow him to say what he wanted to say but the reporter reneged on paying after Conrad's first words on the surface were "Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me."


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