TIL Pope Paul VI spent the night of July 20,21 1969 watching the moon through a telescope of the Vatican Observatory during the first moon landing. Afterward, he praised the achievement by writing at length about the event

http://spectator.org/articles/41194/pope-and-astronauts



Submitted April 10, 2015 at 12:35AM by veryawesomeguy http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3214fl/til_pope_paul_vi_spent_the_night_of_july_2021/