neil armstrong wase why did you, this one man, choose to speak for all when you set your foot on the lunar surface? as it turns out, there was no script. there were no notes. when the moment came, neil and his thoughts turned to the 400,000 people who worked on the project. the designers, the testers, the engineers, the navigators, all who devised that one small step. he said and i qu " would be a big something for all those folks and a lot of others who weren't even involved in the project." and so it was. buzz aldrin, far from being caught up in the adrenaline paused to reflect. he took out a wafer and then wine and observed communion on the moon just as columbus had done when he reached the new world. buzz invited everyone to give thanks in his or her own way and when neil and buzz planted the stars and stripes on the moon, there wasn't -- there was one person who couldn't observe this scene live. that's all right. i don't mind said michael collins from apollo 11's command module. his attention focused on making sure that pioneers would get home. two years ago mike said this, "a h