Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon (2009)

The normal way of dealing with this would be to put [a] in brackets and never speak of it again. Or not even; just edit it and never say anything.

I read somewhere that transcripts of the US Congress are routinely edited, and not therefore absolutely true records. Do people realize? Is it shocking? Does it matter? I don't know; I only know that I haven't heard about it 1/1000th as much as this during the last 40 years.

It feels almost like the topic of Armstrong's exact words and motivations survives and keeps coming up again because somebody (nebulous, singular or collective) was deeply, deeply wounded by the moon landing, and has never been able to think of a good response.