by Pope Leo XIV called Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on Sunday and visited the Astronomical Observatory of the Vatican in Castel Gandolfo on the 56th anniversary of the first moon landing of humans.
“Tonight, 56 years after the Apollo 11 Mondlanding, I spoke to the Astronaut Buzz Aldrin,” the American Pope wrote about X.
“Together we shared the memory of a historical performance, a testimony to the human ingenuity, and we reflected the secret and the size of creation,” he wrote.
After Neil Armstrong, who died in 2012, Aldrin was the second person who entered the moon on the historic Apollo 11 mission, who secured the United States’ victory in the space race.
Aldrin, a pious Christian, took over the community on the moon surface with a travel kit provided by its Presbyterian pastor.
The Pope said he had blessed the 95-year-old US astronaut and his family while calling.
On Sunday on Sunday, Leo visited the Vatican Observatory, which sits on a blade hill near the Pontifical summer house by Castel Gandolfo.
Vatican photographs showed that the Pope at the observatory looked a large telescope, one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, in which planetary scientists mix the investigation of meteorites with theology.
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