Man on the Moon, July, 21, 1969. Photo provided/NASA
Purists will complain that the title of this column is an abbreviation of the first words spoken from the moon’s surface. I grant that claim and wish to point out that this condensation has become an idiom in our modern usage.
While Neil Armstrong’s voice sounded calm and collected, his words were a verbal confirmation that the astronauts had in fact survived the landing.
What had…
