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http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blgorsky.htm
Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky!
Neil Armstrong’s first words upon setting foot on the surface of the moon: ‘Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!’ An apocryphal footnote to the history of the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
Description: Urban legend
Circulating since: 1995
Status: False, but very funny!!! - If you haven’t read it before, go to the link above.
A related urban legend popular among Muslims claims that Armstrong heard a voice say “Allahu akbar” (”God is great”) the moment he stepped on the moon and was inspired to convert to Islam. Never happened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abernathy
... On the eve of the Apollo 11 launch, July 15, 1969, civil rights leader (NAACP, SCLC) Ralph David Abernathy arrived at Cape Canaveral with several hundred members of the poor people to protest spending of government space exploration, while many Americans remained poor. He was met by Thomas O. Paine, the Administrator of NASA, whom he told that in the face of such suffering, space flight represented an inhuman priority and funds should be spent instead to “feed the hungry, clothe the naked, tend the sick, and house the homeless.” Paine told Abernathy that the advances in space exploration were child’s play compared to the tremendously difficult human problems of society, and told him that “if we could solve the problems of poverty by not pushing the button to launch men to the moon tomorrow, then we would not push that button.” On the day of the launch, Abernathy led a small group of protesters to the restricted guest viewing area of the space center and chanted, “We are not astronauts, but we are people.” ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY&feature=youtu.be
Whitey on the moon - gil scott-heron
uploaded by nublackmusic on Nov 14, 2008
video run length = 00:01:29 minutes
A humorous little poem by the great Gil Scott-Heron. Lets see if president Obama will reorganize and re-prioritize the spending of taxpayers dollars. Will food, Shelter and Other social issues take precedence over the military industrial complex and Moon Rocks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCn10YWsY1Q
New NASA goal = Muslim outreach - Bolden
published on Jun 3, 2012 by markedmanner
video run length = 00:01:31 minutes
In a June 2010 interview with Arab news outlet Al Jazeera, new NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said that among his goals for outreach were to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, to expand NASA’s international relationships, and to reach out to and engage the Muslim world, making better known its historic contribution to science.