Very Cool!!

What was the first liquid and food consumed on the moon? This is a very interesting "fun fact".


This is a TRUE one, and may be checked out at:

http://www.snopes.com/glurge/communion.asp


In God We Trust
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> COMMUNION ON THE MOON
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> I presume that most of us were unaware of this story.I didn 't know this, but it 's awesome!
> 43 years ago...guess what happened... many have not heard of this before . . .
> Communion on the Moon: July 20, 1969
> (This is an article by Eric Metaxas)
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> Forty-three years ago two human beings changed history by walking onthe surface of the moon. But what happened before Buzz Aldrin andNeil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps even more amazing, ifonly because so few people know about it. "I 'm talking
> about the fact that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of themoon. Some months after his return, he wrote about it in Guideposts magazine.
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> And a few years ago I had the privilege of meeting him myself.I asked him about it and he confirmed the story to me, and I wroteabout in my book Everything You Always Wanted to KnowAbout God (But Were Afraid to Ask).
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> The background to the story is that Aldrin was an elder at hisPresbyterian Church in Texas during this period in his life, andknowing that he would soon be doing something unprecedented inhuman history, he felt he should mark the occasion somehow, and heasked his minister to help him. And so the minister consecrated acommunion wafer and a small vial of communion wine. And Buzz Aldrintook them with him out of the Earth 's orbit and on to the surfaceof the moon.
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> He and Armstrong had only been on the lunar surface for a few minuteswhen Aldrin made the following public statement:
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> "This is the LM pilot. I 'd like to take this opportunity to ask everyperson listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, topause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours andto give thanks in his or her own way." He then ended radiocommunication and there, on the silent surface of the moon, 250,000miles from home, he read a verse from the Gospel of John, and hetook communion. Here is his own account of what happened:
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> "In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages whichcontained the bread and the wine. I poured the wine into the chaliceour church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon, the wineslowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup. Then I read
> the scripture, 'I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much fruit..Apart from me you can do nothing. '
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> "I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth, but at thelast minute [they] had requested that I not do this.NASA was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn Murray O 'Hare, the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crewreading from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas. I agreed reluctantly.
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> "I ate the tiny Host and swallowed the wine. I gave thanks for theintelligence and spirit that had brought two young pilots to the Sea of
> Tranquility. It was interesting for me to think thevery first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the very first foodeaten there, were the communion elements."
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> And of course, it 's interesting to think that some of the first words spoken on the moon were the words of Jesus Christ, who made the Earth and the moon - and Who, in the immortal words of Dante, is Himself the"Love that moves the Sun and other stars."
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> How many of you knew this?