When Neil Armstrong stepped out to become the first man on the moon, not a soul on earth could have guessed he would land in the middle of a cosmic controversy.

當尼爾-阿姆斯特朗踏上月球成為第一個登上月球的人時，地球上沒有一個人能夠猜到他會落入一場宇宙爭論之中。

That's one small step for man pardon by a leap for mankind.

這對人類來說是一小步，原諒了人類的飛躍。

The problem, the first part of his historic sentence that's one small step for man is grammatically incorrect.

問題是，他的歷史性句子的第一部分，即人類的一小步，在文法上是錯誤的。

It should have been one small step for a man and that missing a has been setting off grammarians ever since.

對一個人來說，這應該是一小步，而這缺失的一個，從此就引爆了語法學家。

Lift it off the final lift off of Atlantis.

把它從亞特蘭蒂斯的最後一個升降機上抬下來。

Through all the years NASA has insisted that he did say the A and modern microphones would have picked it up.

這麼多年來，美國宇航局一直堅稱，他確實說過A，現代的麥克風也會接收到它。

Instead, the word was lost on scratchy old equipment, operating nearly a quarter million miles away.

但卻在近25萬英里外運行的劃痕舊設備上失去了消息。

And Armstrong, though he rarely gave interviews throughout his life, agreed with NASA.

而阿姆斯特朗雖然一生很少接受採訪，但他同意NASA的說法。

Thank you so much.

非常感謝你。

Many scientists have tried, realize the recordings and break down the sound waves with inconclusive results.

很多科學家都嘗試過，實現對聲波的記錄和分解，但結果並不確定。

But now researchers from Michigan State and Ohio State believe they have evidence that Armstrong's utterance may have been shaped less by space than by something very down to earth.

但現在來自密歇根州立大學和俄亥俄州立大學的研究人員認為，他們有證據表明，阿姆斯特朗的語句可能不是由太空形成的，而是由非常接近地球的東西形成的。

The famous astronaut was an Ohio boy, and these researchers studied hundreds of recordings of natives saying the words for and A And they found almost 200 times the words were pushed together, making a sounds like frog.

著名的太空人是一個俄亥俄州的男孩，這些研究人員研究了幾百個當地人說 "和A "的錄音，他們發現有近200次，這些詞被推到一起，發出了像青蛙一樣的聲音。

So listen again.

所以再聽一遍。

It's one small step for land like the moon trip itself.

這是陸地的一小步，就像月球旅行本身。

The theory.

該理論。

Maybe a long shot.

也許是一個長鏡頭。

But it could also prove the final word on the words of the man on the moon.

但它也可以證明月球上的人的話的最終結論。

Tom Foreman, CNN Washington.

湯姆-福爾曼，CNN華盛頓。