For decades, NASA kept quiet the fact that Apollo 11 Lunar Pilot Buzz Aldrin made history of his own shortly after he and Neil Armstrong landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. Aldrin held a prayer service in the lunar module and actually took Communion from a small communion kit, provided him by his pastor at the Webster Presbyterian Church in Houston.
Atheist Madelyn O'Hare had filed a lawsuit against NASA shortly after astronauts read from the Bible during the Christmas Eve 1968 orbit of the Moon by Apollo 8. In order to avoid another lawsuit and to preserve the historic value of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, NASA imposed a radio blackout during Aldrin's private service, unbeknownst to the rest of the world.
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