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If I had known this was an article of faith for you, I would never have pointed out anything but the fact that you are wrong in your misguided understanding.

Nowhere in the Bible is it said that Mankind must never go to the Moon. You are way off base making up your own interpretation of scripture. Our footprints on the Moon did not challenge God or erase God from our lives.

On December 24, 1968, in what was the most watched television broadcast at the time,[1][2] the crew of Apollo 8 read in turn from the Book of Genesis as they orbited the Moon. The Bible used was provided by the Gideons. Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman recited Genesis chapter 1, verses 1 through 10 verbatim, using the King James Version text.[3] Anders read verses 1-4, Lovell read verses 5-8, and Borman read verses 9-10, concluding the transmission.

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William Anders: We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.^[4]

James Lovell

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.^[4]

Frank Borman

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas – and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth.^[4]

I was sitting in our with our whole family on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, listening to this broadcast and it brings tears to my eyes and a fullness in my chest to remember that night right now. Our family tradition was to read the Christmas Story in the Book of Luke on Christmas and this reading from Genesis fit right in. It filled all of our hearts to know that God and the Gospel would be spread around the world from space.

Later, on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, Buzz Aldrin received communion on the lunar surface shortly after landing. Although he did not keep his actions secret, he only said a non-religious sentence on the intercom and read from the scripture off-air.[5][10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8_Genesis_reading

Thanks, TruBluKentuckian for the headsup.