ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON. <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /><O:P></O:P>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. <O:P></O:P>
BUT JUST BEFORE HE REENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY." <O:P></O:P>
MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT. <O:P></O:P>
HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS. <O:P></O:P>
OVER THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY... STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED. <O:P></O:P>
ON JULY 5, 1995, IN <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 /><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:CITY w:st="on">TAMPA BAY</ST1:CITY>, <ST1:STATE w:st="on">FLORIDA</ST1:STATE></ST1:PLACE>, WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION TO ARMSTRONG. THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED. <O:P></O:P>
MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD ANSWER THE QUESTION. <O:P></O:P>
IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">SMALL</ST1:PLACENAME> <ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">MID-WEST</ST1:PLACENAME> <ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">TOWN</ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACE>, HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. <O:P></O:P>
HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THE BEDROOM WINDOWS. <O:P></O:P>
HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS. GORSKY. <O:P></O:P>
AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY. <O:P></O:P>
"SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!" <O:P></O:P>
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TRUE STORY. <O:P></O:P>
