Neil Armstrong's Secret

  • September 1, 2010 1:42 AM PDT
    In case you didn't already know this little tidbit of trivia, 
    it might make you chuckle when you read it.
      
         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 REENTERED 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.
     
    ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE 'GOOD LUCK, MR.
    GORSKY STATEMENT MEANT, BUT  ARMSTRONG 
    ALWAYS JUST SMILED.

    OVER  THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED
     
    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 NOW ANSWER THE QUESTION.

     

     
    IN 1938, WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MID-WEST
    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!"

    "
     
    TRUE  STORY
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    September 1, 2010 3:10 AM PDT
    did you know that Neil got to walk first ont the moon because he was an Eagle Scout and the other guy had only made it to Life scout.

    by the way ahwt was his name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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    September 1, 2010 3:24 AM PDT
    I don't know but the Buzz is Aldrin...


  • September 1, 2010 3:28 AM PDT
    way to go REX.....heres some more info on them.............The Apollo 11 space flight landed the first humans on Earth's Moon on July 20, 1969. The mission, carried out by the United States, is considered a major accomplishment in the history of exploration and represented a victory by the U.S. in the Cold War Space Race with the Soviet Union.

    Launched from Florida on July 16, the third lunar mission of NASA's Apollo Program (and the first G-type mission) was crewed by Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin landed in the Sea of Tranquility and became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Their landing craft, Eagle, spent 21 hours and 31 minutes on the lunar surface while Collins orbited above in the command ship, Columbia.[2] The three astronauts returned to Earth with 47.5 pounds (21.55 kilograms) of lunar rocks and landed in the Pacific Ocean on July 24.

    Apollo 11 fulfilled U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon before the Soviet Union by the end of the 1960s, which he had expressed during a 1961 mission statement before the United States Congress: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."[3]

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    September 1, 2010 3:39 AM PDT
    Thanks for the chuckle Taco!
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    September 1, 2010 4:01 AM PDT
    I like the one Quote of Neil Armstrong Most:

    "Here we set atop the most powerfull machine ever created by man and it was build by the lowest bidder"