In 1969, forty-seven years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin changed history by landing the Apollo 11 Lunar Module and walking on the surface of the moon.

Buzz Aldrin was a Presbyterian elder and he took a consecrated communion wafer and some communion wine with him in the Apollo 11 Lunar Module to the moon. He and Neil had only been on the lunar surface for a few minutes when he transmitted the following radio message.

“ This is the LM (Lunar Module) pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way. ” On the surface of the moon, 250,000 miles from home, he read a verse from the Gospel of John, and he took communion.

Few people knew of it, because of a lawsuit brought against NASA by the atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, over the reading of Genesis on Apollo 8. O'Hair is the person who sued the Baltimore Maryland School District. The resulting Supreme Court decision ended prayer in public schools in 1963.

In Guideposts magazine, Aldrin wrote, "It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements."

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