"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 telev...ised 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 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 back yard. His friend hit the ball, which landed in his neighbour’s yard by the bedroom windows.
His neighbours 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!'"
On a similar note, here's the speech Richard Nixon would have read to the world if there was a disaster during the Apollo 11 mission.
Here's the preamble to it: On July 18 of 1969, as the world waited anxiously for Apollo 11 to land safely on the surface of the Moon, speechwriter William Safire imagined the worst case scenario as he expertly wrote the following sombre memo to President Nixon's Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman. Its contents: a contingency plan, in the form of a speech to be read out by Nixon should astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become stranded on the moon, never to return, followed by some brief instructions relating to its broadcast. Luckily for all those involved, the memo was never needed.
