My friend Joan sent this story to me. I know not where she heard it, but it’s too good not to pass on:
Mr. Gorsky…Too funny and historically true!
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.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Lol! What were the chances 😂
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One of the historical facts that seldom become known! This one is wonderful!
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Hilarious! But, sadly, DEBUNKED! Sorry.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/good-luck-mr-gorsky/
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That is so, so funny!
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Thanks for forwarding this on to us Judy. I had heard it but get a smile on my face each time I think about it. Sort of like my “mouse story”~!
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What was your mouse story, Sam?
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Lol
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Fantastic story, Judy!
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Thanks, Regina. Wouldn’t it be fun if it were true? But still makes a good story/myth.
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This is history worth knowing!
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Good one!!
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I knew the story but still find it hilarious.
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adore this story. Hope it is the truth. What a thing.
ann
we have covid. Not a bad case
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Oh no. Glad it is not severe. Is “We” you and Tony or John, too? My friend Patty Martin (I think you knew her in Cheyenne) was in the hospital for 12 days with it. Just got out. Her boyfriend and his son had it as well. This is in Sheridan. Folks here have it as well. Crossed fingers that I don’t get it before or during my trip.
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