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Nah, I noticed it at the time, watching it live.
I was sitting in a fried-noodle shop in downtown Kyoto at the time so didn't catch much of what he said at all :-) In fact, I missed out on quite a lot back then and am still catching up with Monty Python episodes :-)

Had i been him i would have said something outlandish about the price of fish fingers or something, but i guess that's why i was never chosen.
That's grist for a whole new thread :-)

The following is quite interesting -

"With the technology of the 1960s, however, his global audience heard his comment without the "a," making it "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" — a phrase that technically gave the same meaning of humankind to "man" and "mankind."" *

http://www.thespacerace.com/forum/index.php?topic=1702.msg13297;topicseen

Hmmm, I'm sure I recall him saying it was a mistake, but now it seems not. It's unsurprising though as they never went, as you know.