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Neil Armstrong


> GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE..
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> 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 A 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 "GOODLUCK, 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
>PEOPLEQUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY"
>STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED.
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> 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 ANSWER THE QUESTION.
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> IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MIDWEST 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, 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!"
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> TRUE STORY.
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