Stan sez:

>Eric mentions:
>> Well, everyone knows what the first words spoken on the moon by Neil
>
>I believe it was "Contact light"?  (preceding the well known "first" words :)

To attempt a synthesis of this thread with Denys's earlier comment about voice
recognition and Bruce's cogent point about natural language recognition and
understanding:

Depending on the definition of "on the moon", even if modified by "by Neil
Armstrong", we probably don't remember the first words spoken on the moon (in
the sense of "he spoke on the moon before a class").  The NASA transcript
reads:

From the space-to-ground tapes:

EAGLE: 540 feet, down at 30 [feet per second] . . . down at 15 . . . 400 feet
down at 9 . . . forward . . . 350 feet, down at 4 . . . 300 feet, down 3 1/2 .
. . 47 forward . . . 1 1/2 down . . . 13 forward . . . 11 forward? coming down
     nicely . . . 200 feet, 4 1/2 down . . . 5 1/2 down . . . 5 percent . . .
75 feet . . . 6 forward . . . lights on . . . down 2 1/2 . . . 40 feet? down 2
1/2, kicking up some dust . . . 30 feet, 2 1/2 down . . . faint shadow . . . 4
forward . . . 4 forward . . . drifting to right a little . . . O.K. . . .

HOUSTON: 30 seconds [fuel remaining].

EAGLE: Contact light! O.K., engine stop . . . descent engine command override
off . . .

HOUSTON: We copy you down, Eagle.

EAGLE: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed!


Later, according to Buzz Aldrin:  We opened the hatch and Neil, with me as his
navigator, began backing out of the tiny opening. It seemed like a small
eternity before I heard Neil say, "That's one small step for man . . . one giant
leap for mankind."


- at least that's what is on
<http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-11/apollo-11.html>

Kelly Sevilla