It doesn't sound like there was time for the word to be there. On the other hand, I didn't intentionally make an inane statement... certainly the 'a' was intended, because that's the only way the statement makes any sense.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

There are two of them up here.

I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.