Before the first moonwalk, Buzz Aldrin took a small communion kit out of his personal preference kit and celebrated it inside the lunar module, and said nothing about it on the air.

NASA was being sued at the time over the Apollo 8 crew reading Genesis, so he was asked to keep it off the broadcast and described the pause as a moment for each person to contemplate the events of the last few hours. He wrote about it years later. The wine, he noted, curled slowly up the side of the cup in one-sixth gravity.