True story

Umro je astronaut Nil Armstrong, pa nas podsjeti na anegdotu, za koju nije baš sigurno da li je istinita, ali se dugo vrtila po internetu:

"Good luck Mr. Gorsky"

On July 20, 1969, 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 re-entered the lander, he made the enigmatic remark:

"Good luck, 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 people questioned Armstrong as to what the "Good luck Mr. Gorsky" statement meant, but Armstrong always just smiled. 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 and so Neil Armstrong felt he could answer the question.

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 a fly 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: "Oral sex! You want oral sex?! You’ll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"

"Sretno, gospodine Gorsky!"

Dana 20.7.1968. godine, kapetan svemirske letjelice Apollo 1, Neil Armstrong, bio je prvi čovjek koji je spustio nogu na Mjesec. Nakon toga izgovorio je čuvene riječi: "Ovo je mali korak za čovjeka, ali veliki za čovječanstvo".
Ove riječi čuli su milijuni ljudi na Zemlji. Prije nego će isključiti aparat za komunikaciju sa Zemljom, Armstrong je dodao rečenicu:
"Sretno, gospodine Gorsky!"
Mnoge osobe koje su tada radile u NASA-i pomislile su da se radi o nekom sovjetskom rivalu. Nakon što su pregledali popis svih astronauta, ustanovili su da nikakav Gorsky nije naveden.
Svaki put od tada kada bi se Armstrong pojavio pred novinarima, oni su mu postavljali pitanje da im razjasni značenje te rečenice. Svaki put on bi se samo nasmijao.
U Tampa Bayu 5.7.1995. jedan je novinar ponovo postavio to pitanje, staro tada 26 godina. Ovaj put Armstrong je odlučio odgovoriti.
Gospodin Gorsky bio je već dugi niz godina mrtav, te je astronaut pomislio da je došlo vrijeme da razjasni ovu misterioznu rečenicu. Daleke 1938. kada je Neil bio dječak, igrao je bejzbol sa svojim prijateljem. Lopta je odletjela u susjedno dvorište, gdje su stanovali gospodin i gospođa Gorsky.
Neil je otišao po loptu, i dok ju je uzimao, začuo je kako gospodja Gorsky urla svome mužu:

"Da ti popušim??? Ti bi da ti ja popušim, je li???! E, pa hoću, ali kad ovaj klinac u dvorištu bude hodao po Mjesecu”….

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