My father sent me an email with the following story. Although the email claimed that Armstrong's family had confirmed the story,
a quick check on the Internet shows that it isn't, but it's still an amusing 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, "That's one small stelp 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" is either the Russian or American space programs. Over the years, 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 to Armstrong. 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!"
