I received an Email t'other day re the moon landing by Neil Armstrong:

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," WAS 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!"

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A good story, but completely false....

Snopes

spoil sport, John. Got a chuckle off that one.

Never researched it myself but the conspiratorists say that no photos taken on the moon show any stars, is it true? where did they go?!!!

I always thought that it was because they went up in the day time Dan.

This guy has an explanation for everything though,

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#stars


John.

WOW John!!! Sorry to go OFF topic but WHY would you tease me like that!!! YOUR Avatar man!!!! YOUR AVATAR!!

Good innit?

John.

Why would you want to put up a pic of cat sick

i heard the button on the camera used was too small to be pressed using the gloved hand ,i believe no landings were made (at least the early ones were fakes) purely propaganda to "prove" the US could do it before the USSR.i looked through my bino's and i couldn't see tyre tracks anywhere ,strangely nor can that useless space telescope either

This post has been edited by chesters1: Apr 19 2008, 06:20 PM

The button on the camera would be too small normally, that is why they used adapted Hasselblads with a large metal plate covering the normal shutter button

Funnily enough I was talking (briefly) to a chap in the pub earlier this week, he also said that he didn't believe we landed on the Moon