At 09:08 AM 10/1/2004, Shahan, Ray wrote:
>GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE..... ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S A TRUE STORY. 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, "ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR
>MANKIND." WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS. BUT JUST BEFORE
>HE REENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY."
>
>MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH 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 ANSWER THE QUESTION.
>IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MIDWEST TOWN, HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL
>WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN
>HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THE BEDROOM WINDOWS. 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. " 5EX ! YOU WANT 5EX?! YOU'LL GET 5EX
>WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!"

This story has been floating around for some time, and it's not true.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mrgorsky.htm

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