Posted on 01/27/2019 5:52:47 PM PST by Mean Daddy
When Apollo 11s Eagle lunar module landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had to do something hard: Wait. They were scheduled to open the door of their lunar lander and step onto the unknown surface of a completely different world. But for now, their mission ordered them to take a pause before the big event.
And so Aldrin spent his time doing something unexpected, something no man had ever attempted before. Alone and overwhelmed by anticipation, he took part in the first Christian sacrament ever performed on the moona rite of Christian communion.
Aldrins lunar communion has since become shrouded in mystery and confusion, but the rite itself was relatively simple.The astronaut was also an elder at Webster Presbyterian Church, and before he headed into space in 1969, he got special permission to take bread and wine with him to space and give himself communion.
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He also had astronaut ice cream and Tang.
The trailer was released online today.
Apollo 11 Trailer: The Moon Landing Documentary Critics Call Astonishing
Filmmaker Todd Douglas Millers Apollo 11 is made up of pristine, unprocessed, never-before-seen 65mm footage that was recently discovered in the National Archives, as well as 11,000 hours of uncatalogued NASA audio recordings. Miller and his team then went about digitizing the raw material, creating an 8k transfer that the director has called the highest quality digital collection of Apollo 11 footage in existence.
Bttt.
5.56mm
I agree, though it was supposed to be a joke.
Indeed, but that's sadly part of the Internet. Along with email hoaxes etc.
Not on FR, anymore.
This fits in with the whole “we didn’t really go to the moon” narrative.
After all, wouldn’t the wine have been floating all over the capsule?
I don’t need the sarcasm tag, do I?
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