Comoonion

Shown is a handwritten card containing a Bible verse that Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin planned to broadcast back to Earth during a lunar holy communion service and is among items offered in a space-related auction in Dallas, Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Communion on the Moon July 20, 1969

Forty-three years ago two human beings made history by walking on the surface of the moon. But what happened before Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong exited the lunar module is known by very few: Buzz Aldrin took holy communion on the surface of the moon. Some months after his return, he wrote about it in Guideposts magazine.

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