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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: Apollo Trivia
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Date: Mon, 16-Jan-84 09:15:50 EST
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That "first step" on the moon that we all saw on tv was not.  Armstrong
stepped off the ladder to the moon several minutes before just to test
the footing.  The tv camera was turned on later and he did his thing for
the camera.  This according to NASA and the speakers atthe Smithsonian
in DC.  They, it seems, did not want him to disappear into a hole or
something in front of the cameras.  Sort of takes the drama out of the whole
thing if you ask me.  
T. C. Wheeler