Mr. Gorsky Gets Lucky

When Apollo Mission astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he said, most famously, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." But he said other things too -- conversation with his fellow astronauts and Mission Control, as well as this enigmatic remark, uttered just before he re-entered the landing craft: "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky."

At NASA, they thought this might refer to some rival Soviet cosmonaut. But there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space program. The comment began to take on overtones of Jimmy Durante's mysterious "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!"

Over the years, Armstrong never answered the question about what his "Gorsky" remark meant. But finally, on July 5 in Tampa Bay, Fla., the famous space hero finally gave in. It seems Mr. Gorsky had died, and so he felt it was okay to answer.

When he was a kid, Armstrong was playing baseball with his brother in the backyard; his brother hit a fly ball that landed in front of a neighbor's bedroom window -- that of Mr. and Mrs. Gorsky. As Neil was retrieving the ball, he heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting:

"Oral sex? Oral sex you want? You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"

Ya'll come back now, ya here...