Myths, legends and folklore

NASA, a government agency, I’ll just ask straight up

how’s your trust in government these days

NASA categorically denies the story, NASA denies a lot of things

Yesterday, 10 years ago Niel Armstrong was laid to rest at sea.

True, not true

only you can decide that, if you feel a smile

Mission accomplished

fact and fiction of Apollo 11.

Late in the Apollo 11 Moonwalk, Mission Control was puzzled by an enigmatic statement by Neil Armstrong: “Good luck, Mr. Gorsky.” Confused by the Russian-sounding name, they assumed Armstrong was referring to a Russian cosmonaut—but there was no Cosmonaut Gorsky. Many years later, someone cornered Armstrong at a party and asked about his strange quote. Armstrong hesitated, but finally said, “Well, he’s dead now, so I guess it’s okay to tell you.” Mr. Gorsky had been Armstrong’s neighbor when he was just a boy in Wapakoneta, Ohio. One day he was playing baseball with his friends when the ball went into Gorsky’s yard. Armstrong went to retrieve it, and as he picked the ball up he heard a woman’s voice issuing from the window above:

sex?!

I’ll give you sex the day the kid next door walks on the Moon!”

Fair winds and following seas

Eagle