Monday, July 21, 2025
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I’d add manager Alvin Dark telling Gaylord Perry that he will hit a home run when a man lands on the moon. He hit his first home run 30 minutes after Armstrong stepped on the moon. As a baseball fan I love that story.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there's this choice who-knows-if-its-true story...
ReplyDeleteOn July 20th, 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 heard by millions of people around the world.
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 he just brushed them off by smiling.
On July 5th, 1995, in Tampa Bay, Florida, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26-year-old question. That 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 Midwestern 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, the 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 was another time. Now all we have to do is learn how to live with each other and not kill the planet we live on. Good trouble.
The Gorsky story is not true.
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