Apollo 8 and the lunar communion

Apollo 8 rounds the Moon, photographs the Earth rising over its edge, and the crew reads Genesis 1:1–10 on air to the largest audience that had ever listened to anything. Seven months later the first food and drink taken on the Moon are bread and wine: Aldrin's communion, held off the broadcast at the agency's request because of the lawsuit already filed over the reading.

In plain words

Apollo 8 rounds the Moon, photographs the Earth rising, and its crew reads Genesis 1:1–10 to the largest audience that had ever listened to anything. Seven months later Aldrin takes communion on the Moon, kept off the broadcast because of a lawsuit over the reading: the release, and the fence around it, seven months apart.

The mechanism

THE SPHERE SEEN FROM OUTSIDE, AND THE FIRST WORDS SPOKEN OVER IT ARE VERSE ONE — the first humans past the wall, looking back at the whole ball, read the initialisation sequence aloud: the void, the light, the division. Then the suit to narrow it, dismissed; then the same act repeated on the surface, silenced by the institution that flew him there. Release, and the re-enclosure printed on the same object, seven months apart

Scripture

Genesis 1:1–10

How it was checked

• EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: COMMITTED; a capture; a release
• Letter eraTHE REGATHERING AND THE RAIL 1947 to 1993
• Plate — Bill Anders, Earthrise, Apollo 8, 24 December 1968 · NASA · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg
• SourcesPRIMARY DOCUMENT — the NASA air-to-ground transcript, Apollo 8 day 4; O'Hair v. Paine, dismissed 1970; Aldrin's own account (1970)