What US Astronaut said the following: "Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me."?
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999), (Captain, USN), was an American NASA astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and during the Apollo 12 mission became the third man to walk on the Moon. He was "short of stature, but long on wit" as someone chose to describe him. I do believe that he went "off script" with his comment as he stepped onto the Moon's surface, as NASA usually required these to be carefully scripted. It has been said that he did make those comments to win a bet.
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Nicholas Miernicki
The best part of that mission was the Saturn V being hit twice by bolts of lightning knocking out the instrumentation in the command module. Once the crew received the method to reset everything, they spent the rest of their riding to orbit laughing it up about what had just happened to them.