In July 1969, Buzz Aldrin pulled a packet of bread and a vial of wine from his personal preference kit aboard the lunar module Eagle and took Communion on the surface of the Moon while Houston went radio-silent, because NASA was already fighting an atheist’s lawsuit over the Apollo 8 Genesis reading

Twenty minutes after Eagle landed, Buzz Aldrin took Communion on the Moon using a chalice from a small Texas church — and NASA, then being sued over the Apollo 8 Genesis reading, asked him to keep it off the radio. The post In July 1969, Buzz Aldrin pulled a packet of bread and a vial of wine from his personal preference kit aboard the lunar module Eagle and took Communion on the surface of the Moon while Houston went radio-silent, because NASA was already fighting an atheist’s lawsuit over the