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Everyone remembers Neil Armstrongs famous first words when he stepped onto the moons surface in 1969. But almost no one recalls his last words, spoken as he climbed back into his lunar module. On his way up the ladder, he made the enigmatic statement, Good luck, Mr. Gorsky! Most people thought he was making some mysterious reference to someone in the Soviet space program, and reporters went haywire when, after lengthy investigation, they could find no cosmonaut or other space program official named Gorsky. Nor could they find anyone in the American space program by that name. NASA officials were equally baffled by the remark. For almost thirty years, the statement stood as an unsolve mystery of the historic Apollo 11 flight.
Then, after nearly three decades of silence about the matter, Neil Armstrong himself finally explained it. When he was growing up as a child in Wapakoneta, Ohio, his next-door neighbors were a couple named Gorsky. When Armstrong spoke up to reveal the answer to the mystery, both Mr. Gorsky and his wife had recently passed away, and Armstrong had waited until they were both deceased to spare them any embarrassment before he disclosed the explanantion.
One day, Neil and his younger brother were playing baseball in their back yard, when a ball sailed over Neils head and rolled into the Gorskys yard, just outside their bedroom window. Neil ran over to retrieve it, and as he stood under the window, he heard Mr. and Mrs. Gorsky arguing loudly inside. As he picked 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!"
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)in reverse.
edbermac
(15,919 posts)I thought that sounded kind of far fetched.
Brother Buzz
(36,216 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)in the base?"
sarge43
(28,939 posts)warrior1
(12,325 posts)but an urban legend.
rug
(82,333 posts)Page 337: EAGLE Houston, Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed. CAPCOM Roger, Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
Page 382: ARMSTRONG I'm going to step off the LM now. ARMSTRONG That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.
ARMSTRONG As the -The surface is fineand powdery. I can -I can pick it up loosely, with my tIt does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fractionof an inch. Maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles. CAPCOM Neil, this is Houston. We're copying.
Somwhere further in are his last words standing on the moon. While I was looking I read Nixon's telephone call and got sick.
TrogL
(32,818 posts)pg. 410
The last thing said on the moon is apparently "50 blanks" whatever that means. Pg. 459 half way down
rug
(82,333 posts)This confirms to me that history is made of prose, not poetry.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)Bucky
(53,795 posts)nolabear
(41,915 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)No, wait. Those would be my wife's last words from the moon.