Neil Armstrong's 'One small step' phrase prepared months ahead of time, says brother

The interview runs counter to what Armstrong says in his 2005 biography, clarifying that the quote evolved over the course of the flight mission. But as Dr Christopher Riley — the director of the BBC program — points out, Armstrong had a good reason for doing so: "It was probably easier to just say that he’d thought it up after landing, thus dodging the issue of where the words came from, and who maybe suggested them, or influenced him."

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