IN CASE YOU DIDN'T
ALREADY KNOW THIS LITTLE TIDBIT OF TRIVIA,
ON JULY 20, 1969, AS
COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE,
NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS
THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON.
HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER
STEPPING ON THE MOON, "THAT'S ONE SMALL
STEP FOR MAN, ONE
GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," WERE TELEVISED TO
EARTH AND HEARD BY
MILLIONS.*
BUT JUST BEFORE HE
RE-ENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE
ENIGMATIC REMARK -
"GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY".
MANY PEOPLE AT NASA
THOUGHT IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING
SOME RIVAL SOVIET
COSMONAUT. HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING,
THERE WAS NO GORSKY
IN EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE
PROGRAMS.
OVER THE YEARS, MANY
PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG
AS TO WHAT THE -
'GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY' STATEMENT MEANT,
BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS
JUST SMILED.
ON JULY 5, 1995, IN
TAMPA BAY , FLORIDA , WHILE ANSWERING
QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A
SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP
THE 26-YEAR-OLD
QUESTION TO ARMSTRONG. THIS TIME
HE FINALLY RESPONDED.
MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG
FELT HE COULD NOW
ANSWER THE QUESTION.
IN 1938, WHEN HE WAS
A KID IN A SMALL MID-WESTERN TOWN ,
HE WAS PLAYING
BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD.
HIS FRIEND HIT THE
BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S
YARD BY THEIR BEDROOM
WINDOW. HIS NEIGHBORS WERE
MR. AND MRS. GORSKY.
AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP THE BALL,
YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD
MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY
"SEX! YOU WANT SEX?!
YOU'LL GET SEX
WHEN THE KID NEXT
DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON !"
TRUE STORY. It
broke the place up.
