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Buzz Aldrin Took Holy Communion on the Moon. NASA Kept it Quiet
History Channel ^ | JUL 31, 2018 | ERIN BLAKEMORE

Posted on 01/27/2019 5:52:47 PM PST by Mean Daddy

When Apollo 11‘s 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 moon—a rite of Christian communion.

Aldrin’s 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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Had never heard this story before.
1 posted on 01/27/2019 5:52:47 PM PST by Mean Daddy
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To: Mean Daddy

Thats “One small sip of wine for man...”


2 posted on 01/27/2019 5:54:04 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: Mean Daddy

Wasn’t this depicted on “From Earth to Moon”?


3 posted on 01/27/2019 5:55:13 PM PST by Tallguy
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To: Mean Daddy
The lengths to which our Progressive overlords keep secrets from us.

What possible reason to keep this secret, other than to deny faith as legitimate?

It is a serious question. I would like to hear reasonable answers.

4 posted on 01/27/2019 5:58:40 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Mean Daddy
Commercial Photography
5 posted on 01/27/2019 6:02:26 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: marktwain

You can bet now that they would give them a prayer rug for a Muslim astronut.


6 posted on 01/27/2019 6:03:46 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: marktwain

I don’t think this was ever a secret.


7 posted on 01/27/2019 6:07:11 PM PST by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: Mean Daddy

Everyone knows that Christian white men did NOT land on the moon, it was women and muslims that did all the engineering.


8 posted on 01/27/2019 6:08:12 PM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: Mean Daddy

I read about Buzz had blessed wine and bread from his home church with him on the moon and did eat the bread and drink the wine saying the proper words while on the surface.


9 posted on 01/27/2019 6:09:40 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Mean Daddy

It’s been known for a long time.


10 posted on 01/27/2019 6:10:26 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Mean Daddy

I don’t believe the service says it is on behalf of all mankind. It’s simply one man expressing his faith. It curdles my blood to see them avoid talking about this. It’s in fact censorship of Christianity.

If a Hindu or Muslim would have done something in space, the whole world would be marveling at the sanctity of the event.

Christianity does not have to go invisible, and essentially this is what they demanded of Aldrin.

God bless him.


11 posted on 01/27/2019 6:11:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Tallguy

Yes. It’s also in a number of books.


12 posted on 01/27/2019 6:13:55 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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When a muslim gets to the Moon he’ll claim it for islam.


13 posted on 01/27/2019 6:19:16 PM PST by onedoug
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To: HighSierra5

Hahahahahaha...”Muslim astronaut!”....that is hahahahahafunny! It takes a little brain power. Muzzies have exactly 0


14 posted on 01/27/2019 6:20:50 PM PST by albie
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Muslim astronut. Astronut. Get it? I know. It’s lame.


15 posted on 01/27/2019 6:30:33 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: albie

Like that cartoon with a boy asking him mother why there aren’t any muslims on Star Trek, and mom telling him because it’s the future.


16 posted on 01/27/2019 6:32:30 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: Mean Daddy
Had never heard this story before.

It was never acknowledged during the missions because NASA was embroiled in a lawsuit against Madalyn O'Hair over the Apollo 8 Genesis passage.

All accounts say that the wine curled gracefully up the side of the cup in lunar gravity, but the book I read said that Aldrin specifically meant to make note of this detail and completely forgot in all the excitement.

17 posted on 01/27/2019 6:38:52 PM PST by Spirochete (GOP: Gutless Old Party)
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To: marktwain

I remember when John Young took a clandestine sandwich into space, and later Li’l Abner went to the moon with a sandwich. The moon men took lots of photos of him, but none of the moon men.

The first Bible readings of Genesis from Outer space which set off the atheists demanding equal time, so they offered them equal time. Just get yourself into space and do it.

First I’ve herd of this. Maybe it was kept quiet because of the atheists will again be upset, even though it was fifty years ago.


18 posted on 01/27/2019 6:45:17 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Mean Daddy
Had never heard this story before.

I had. 20+ years ago. It wasn't exactly a secret.

Conspiracy nuts will also tell you that in addition to taking Communion, Buzz Aldrin performed a Masonic Temple ceremony.

https://scottishritenmj.org/blog/to-the-moon-and-back-with-buzz-aldrin

19 posted on 01/27/2019 6:46:37 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: DoughtyOne
I don’t believe the service says it is on behalf of all mankind. It’s simply one man expressing his faith. It curdles my blood to see them avoid talking about this. It’s in fact censorship of Christianity. If a Hindu or Muslim would have done something in space, the whole world would be marveling at the sanctity of the event. Christianity does not have to go invisible, and essentially this is what they demanded of Aldrin.

And as some Apollo 12 astronauts also left some porn on the moon then Aldrin should be able to claim equal freedom.

20 posted on 01/27/2019 7:40:16 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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