Did Neil Armstrong say, “Good luck, Mr. Gorsky” during the Apollo 11 moon landing?
The story you may have heard goes something like this: immediately after Neil Armstrong uttered his famous, “That’s one small step for man…” quote during the first moon landing, he then tacked on the cryptic phrase, “Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!” Armstrong finally explained what this meant in 1995, telling a reporter that, as a kid, he had fetched a fly ball hit by his brother into the yard of his neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Gorsky. As he was picking up the ball, he apparently overheard Mrs. Gorsky shouting, “Oral sex? Oral sex you want? You’ll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!” What makes this story believable lies in the details. Every version that is recounted uses a Jewish-sounding name for the neighbors: Gorsky, Shultz, Klein, and the like. Couple this with the fact that the phrasing of “Oral sex you want?” follows a speech pattern stereotypically attributed to Jews, and the tale takes on a ring of truth. But perhaps what makes the story most effective is the fact tha
