After Aldrin ended the communication, he read a verse from the Gospel
of John: “I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me
will bring forth much fruit. Apart from me you can do nothing.” He then
opened two small packages containing consecrated bread and wine from his
church in Texas. Aldrin poured the wine into a chalice. “In the
one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wine curled slowly and gracefully up
the side of the cup,” he later recalled. As Neil Armstrong looked on in
silence, Aldrin took communion. The first foods ever prepared or
consumed on the moon were the Body and Blood of Christ.
Aldrin had intended to broadcast the communion passage to Earth, but at the last moment NASA silenced him to avoid exacerbating an ongoing legal battle with Madalyn Murray O’Hair, a miserable, militant atheist widely considered “the most hated woman in America.” Seven months earlier, Murray had sued NASA for permitting the Apollo 8 astronauts to read from the Book of Genesis during a Christmas Eve broadcast from lunar orbit.
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