When
Apollo Mission
Astronaut Neil Armstrong first
walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous "
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" statement but followed it by several remarks, usual communication traffic between him, the other
astronauts and
Mission Control.
Just before he re-entered the lander, however, 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 finally died and so Neil Armstrong felt he could answer the question.
When he was a kid, he was playing
baseball with a friend in the backyard. His friend hit a
fly ball, which landed in the front of his neighbor's
bedroom windows. His neighbors were
Mr. & 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!"