Secret communion on Moon you didn't know about

July 21, 2013 00:14

The date, July 20, 1969, will forever be known as the day the United States of America put the first man on the moon. What most people do not know is the date also marks when Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin celebrated the first and only Lord's Supper on the moon, a fact the US government refused to make public at the time.

Inside the lunar module, just hours before stepping onto the moon for the first time, Aldrin radioed Houston Space Centre Mission Control.

He asked for a few moments of silence 'to invite each person listening in, wherever and whomever 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'.

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