It is believed that the first man on the Moon uttered a mysterious phrase, the solution to which he later gave in an interview on Earth. We checked to see if Armstrong said anything similar.

Here's what's reported on this series: information sites:

“It was Neil Armstrong who was the commander of Apollo 11, which landed on the moon for the first time in history on July 20, 1969. It was he who took the first step on the Moon, and after a three-hour walk he radioed back to Earth the famous words about “a small step for man, but a huge leap for all mankind.”

However, before returning to the lunar module, the astronaut said one more phrase: “Good luck, Mr. Gorski.” The elderly Armstrong told reporters the meaning of this remark only in 1995.

NASA suggested that this might be a challenge thrown at one of the Soviet cosmonauts. However, the check confirmed that there is no cosmonaut with that name in the Union. Then, for decades, at every opportunity, at all meetings and conferences, Armstrong was asked what his strange statement meant. Neil only smiled mysteriously in response, laughed it off and replied that he couldn’t say anything.

But many years later, Armstrong finally responded. Mr. Gorski had died, and Neal felt that answering the question wouldn't hurt anyone. One day, when he was still a teenager, Neil and his friends were playing baseball in the backyard. Armstrong's friend threw the ball so that it ended up under the bedroom window of their neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Gorski. It is worth noting that the couple constantly fought and was close to divorce. As the guy climbed over the fence and bent down to pick up the ball, he heard Mrs. Gorski shouting to Mr. Gorski:

“You’ll only get it after the neighbor’s kid lands on the moon!”

It was not difficult to guess what Mr. Gorski asked his wife, and the boy remembered this conversation for many years.”

Some sources, including "Peekaboo" And Victor Shenderovich, they clarify that Mr. Gorski’s request was about oral sex. This story is very popular in Media And fiction. In the West, it is dedicated to the incident in the Gorski family short film.

According to popular websites, the phrase about Mr. Gorski has interested reporters for decades. However, a search in sources before 1995 turns out to be fruitless - nothing like this has ever been mentioned in newspapers or books. On many websites the date and place of the same press conference at which Neil Armstrong revealed the truth about Mr. Gorski to the world is given: July 5, 1995, Tampa Bay, Florida. But there is no mention of the phrase in the press either for the specified day or for the dates adjacent to it.

In November of the same year, the popular American online question and answer service addressed the topic. Straight Dope, which previously gained authority in a similar format newspaper column. One of the readers asked how true the above story was, which he received in the form of an email newsletter. Cecil Adams (the pseudonym of the column's author) replied that NASA had categorically denied everything to her, and suggested that the story originated from a humorous conference rec.humor on the legendary computer network Usenet. Indeed, around the same years, the story was published in print. collection jokes previously sent via email. Only a few years have passed, and she has already gone completely wild. serious periodicals. Although back on November 28, 1995, Neil Armstrong stated, that he didn’t say anything like that, but this was the first time I heard such a joke performed by a comedian Buddy Hackett, familiar to many as the voice of the seagull in the Disney cartoon “The Little Mermaid”.

And indeed, at least in the 90s, this bike was nothing more than joke, based on the stereotypical idea of Jewish wives as opposed to sex for pleasure. In its various variations, instead of Gorski, other typical Jewish surnames appeared: Seligman, Schulz, Lipinski or Klein. Even the word order (“Oral sex you want”) was typical of the way this ethnic group communicates in the United States. What Neil Armstrong was talking about in reality can be easily seen by looking at transcript conversations of the Apollo 11 astronauts on the official NASA website. There is no Mr. Gorski to be found there, but the words about one small step for a person, but a giant leap for humanity are the absolute truth.