I just listened to a book and watched a DVD on all the manned space flights up through 11, and am re-reading "Apollo 13". The events of Apollo 11 figure prominently in each.
I was struck by the phrase "in peace". I wonder why that seemed necessary. Is it because so much of what we do isn't "in peace"? Is it a veiled threat, that it didn't have to be "in peace"?
One thing that seems certain - if it really, really were "in peace", with no one there anyway, it wouldn't have to be stated. The US assures the world the war in Iraq is to insure "peace", for instance.
And, by the way, I'm sure Armstrong's script read "One small step for a man" but what he said left out the "a". No room for it, he didn't say it. Wanted to have said it, I'm sure, but didn't. The tapes speak for themselves.
Arf