I got this in an email, is this story TRUE????????

[PRINCESS VIJA]

GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE.....
> >> ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S A TRUE STORY.
> >>
> >> 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 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
> >> "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY."
> >>
> >> MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH 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, 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 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!"
> >>
> >> TRUE STORY.

 

[Rajah]

I've heard that before. Dunno whether it's true or not, but it is a funny story.

 

[Kissimmee JP]

No. It's listed on the urban legends website. It was a joke told by Buddy Hackett.

Funny, nonetheless.

 

[minniecarousel]

I could ask my cousin who grew up in the same small town as Neil Armstrong - but it sounds like the question has already been answered.

 

[phamton]

False.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mrgorsky.htm

This legend, seemingly an obvious joke, Buzz Aldrin began circulating on the Internet in mid-1995 and was picked up by the media a few months later. The inclusion of specific details (e.g., the name of Armstrong's neighbor, the date of the press conference on which he revealed the meaning of his remark) apparently led some to believe the farcical story might have some truth to it.

 

[CarolA]

Even if it isn't true it's funny!

 

[one_cat]

It's too good to be true. Wish it was.

 

[GeorgeG]

I've heard that one before, too. I don't know if it's true, but I'd like to think it is.

 

[phamton]

The Gorsky tale likely began as a joke and, in the process of being told and retold as a true story over time, ultimately earned the status of urban legend. As Professor Brunvand says, "The truth never stands in the way of a good story." In spite of the ease with which this one is debunked, it's so much fun to tell that it will surely still be with us decades hence

And it has further morphed:
Good luck, Mr. ... Liebowitz???
08/16/01: British columnist John Humphrys, reflecting upon the insoluble mysteries of life in last Sunday's Times, posed the peculiar question: "Why were the first words of the second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin: 'Good luck, Mr Liebowitz'?"

It's peculiar historically because, of course, NASA recordings prove Aldrin uttered no such words. It's peculiar folklorically because Humphrys would seem to be delivering a brand-new variant of a well known urban legend: that Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, purportedly made the puzzling statement, "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky," when his feet touched the lunar sand.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/armstrong-gorsky.htm
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blgorsky.htm

Any doubts about the veracity of this legend are laid to rest by the
NASA Transcript of the Apollo 11 mission, which record no such statement having been made by Armstrong. Armstrong himself said in late 1995 that he first heard the anecdote delivered as a joke by comedian Buddy Hackett in California.

Bev