(No, the story isn't true, but it is funny!)
Posted on 12/07/2018 12:46:40 PM PST by sodpoodle
IN CASE YOU DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW THIS LITTLE TIDBIT OF WONDERFUL 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 ABOUT MR.GORSKY AND
THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED BECAUSE HIS MR. GORSKY HAD JUST DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD NOW ANSWER THE QUESTION.
HERE IS THE ANSWER TO
"WHO WAS MR. GORSKY?":
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!"
It broke the place up.
NEIL ARMSTRONG'S FAMILY CONFIRMED THAT
THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
Do pass it on, it's too choice not to be shared.
Funny!
I wish it were true, had that reaction when I first heard it. According to the late Neil Armstrong, he and his wife first heard the story when the late Buddy Hackett told the joke (apparently he's the author) in his show.
Nope, just a story. He also said “One small step for A man...”
Armstrong was also listed as “Mr. Neil Armstrong, as he had retired from the service before applying for the astronaut program. As the Navy and the Air Force were bickering as to which branch of service the first man on the Moon would belong to, he was the perfect compromise.
Have seen it many years before, and it was ‘ORAL SEX!’....................
(No, the story isn't true, but it is funny!)
Sooooooooo.... immediately upon realizing that Armstrong DID in fact walk on the moon, Mr. Gorsky, now some 30+ years older, did in fact get laid....
Yikes.... :^)
I knew Mr. Armstrong, Niel and went to school with his son.
He was as great a man as his legacy supports.
His moon walk was greatness but without it he would have been just as great.
Aspire to be like him and please just as humble.
And on that very same day at a little airport in Sandwich, Illinois I was entertained by Bob Hope!
http://www.dekalbcountylife.com/6-5-12.htm
Much needed laugh :)
Thank you for posting!
Not true Flat Earthers will be along shortly to explain how it was so done in the Disney studio. If you are lucky they will also let you in on how Australia isn’t a real place!
Some good info on debunking myths about Neil Armstrong
Much of what was reported is accurate, and much is wrong — some is just plain silly.
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On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]
Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100409095818/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee
The following statement was made by Eric M. Jones, editor of NASA's Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal, as the official and final word on the Gorsky affair:
During November 1995, a clever (and slightly risqué) story was widely circulated on the Internet concerning a statement Neil is supposed to have made during the Apollo 11 EVA. At the suggestion of several readers, let me state that Neil never said "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky" at any time during the mission. Indeed, on November 28, 1995, Neil wrote, "I understand that the joke is a year old. I first heard it in California delivered by (comedian) Buddy Hackett."
Aspire to be like him and please just as humble.
After half a lifetime of study, including flying with and talking to some pretty outstanding pilots, I decided that Armstrong is tied with the late Bob Hoover as the best pilot ever.
I don't aspire to be as humble, however. I'm more the Bob Hoover type.
Actually, that’s not the first thing he said. When he first set his foot down on the lunar surface, he described the texture of the ground and what it felt like.
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