Buzz Aldrin took Communion on the surface of the Moon using a tiny kit he carried aboard with NASA’s quiet blessing, pouring wine that curled slowly upward in one-sixth gravity — and NASA then asked him to keep it off the air to avoid inflaming a lawsuit already underway over a Bible reading from orbit

A few hours after the lunar module Eagle touched down on the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, before Neil Armstrong opened the hatch and climbed down the ladder into history, something quiet happened inside the cramped cabin that most people watching the broadcast never knew about. Buzz Aldrin reached for a small kit [...] The post Buzz Aldrin took Communion on the surface of the Moon using a tiny kit he carried aboard with NASA’s quiet blessing, pouring wine that curled slowly upward in one