Question: What food was Buzz Aldrin the first person to eat on the moon?
Answer: Bread and wine. Before the moonwalk, Aldrin, an elder at his Presbyterian church near Houston, privately took communion inside the lunar module using a tiny chalice his congregation gave him. He later noted that in the moon’s one-sixth gravity, the wine “curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup.” NASA kept the ceremony quiet at the time, wary of a lawsuit from an atheist activist after Apollo 8’s Genesis reading. Read the full story here.
