triumph in the space race. 600 million people watched neil armstrong's first step on - vision, but to don sirsy the picture alone wasn't enough, and as we see it again, there's new fodder for skeptics. and for david wright, it's "a sign of the time". >> the camera wasn't there to capture cortez or columbus. >> and we're getting the picture on the tv. >> but armstrong, the day he first set foot on a new world, everyone on this world held their breath and marvelled. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> the images were grainy and ghostly, but that didn't matter. this was live tv from the moon. amazing we got to see it at all. the nasa tv engineer that day was just 28 years old. you get one shot at live coverage of what's occurring. you get one shot. you get it live that what's we d. it was live to the world 600 million people. >> at least one of those 600 million was disappointed. the westinghouse engineer who designed the lunar camera expected better. >> we know what it should look like. and this was not what we -- what we had seen in simulation. and i didn't know -- i