PhydeauxJoined: June 16, 2004Status: OfflinePosts: 24Rep:
Neil Armstrong Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:36:25 AM#9113Perm Link
I found this on the web, and had remembered something about it...
"When Apollo mission astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous "one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind" statement, but followed it by several remarks--[mostly the] usual COM traffic between him, the other astronauts, and mission control. 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 have question [Armstrong] as to what the `Good luck, Mr. Gorsky' statement meant. On July 5, in Tampa Bay, Florida, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26-year-old question to Armstrong. He finally responded. It seems that Mr. Gorsky had died and so Armstrong felt he could answer the question.
"When he was a kid, Neil was playing baseball with his brother in the back yard. His brother hit a fly ball which landed in front of his neighbors' bedroom window. The neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Gorsky. As he leaned down to pick up the ball, he heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky, `Oral sex? Oral sex you want? You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!'" --Ted Maas, via the Internet
I think I understand why he didn't tell anybody for so long. That's... just... so... gross!
OoPart: an artifact that "seems" to be out of context with the surrounding evidence.
Ex.: A fossilized footprint of a human child containing a fossil of a crushed trilobite. Pronounced O-Part.