Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky

I haven't heard thisone for a while, but it bears re-printing:

It seems when Apollo Mission Astronaut, Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous "One Small Step for [a] Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind" statement, but followed it by several remarks - -- usual comm traffic between him, the other astronauts and Mission Control.

Before he reentered 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, they discovered no Gorsky in either the Russian or American Space Programs.

Over the years many people have questioned him as to what the "Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky" statement meant. A few months ago, (July 05, Tampa Bay, FL) during a Q&A session following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26 year old question to Armstrong. He finally responded.

It seems that Mr. Gorsky had finally died and so Neil Armstrong felt he could answer the question.

When he was a kid, he was playing baseball with his brother in the backyard. His brother hit a fly ball which landed in front of his neighbor's bedroom window. His neighbors were Mr. & Mrs. Gorsky. As he leaned down to pick up the ball he heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky: "Oral sex, oral sex you want? You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!!"

http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~walther/fun/stories.html

This is one of those modern day myths, check out the Apollo 11 Journal at

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.step.html

but then what the hell do they know? ;)

!SR