One of Armstrong’s rare confessions of uneasiness is focused later on this moment. “I don’t recall any particular emotion or feeling other than a little caution, a desire to be sure it was safe to put my weight on that surface outside Eagle’s footpad.” Did his foot tingle in the heavy lunar overshoe? “I’m going to step off the Lem now.” Did something in him shudder at the touch of the new ground? Or did he draw a sweet strength from the balls of his feet? Nobody was necessarily ever going to know. “That’s one small step for a man,” said Armstrong, “one giant leap for mankind.” He had joined
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