{"id":47789,"date":"2019-07-19T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2019\/07\/19\/pope-paul-vi-watched-arrival-apollo-11s-on-the-moon-and-sent-a-message\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:09:00","slug":"pope-paul-vi-watched-arrival-apollo-11s-on-the-moon-and-sent-a-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2019\/07\/19\/pope-paul-vi-watched-arrival-apollo-11s-on-the-moon-and-sent-a-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Paul VI watched arrival Apollo 11's on the moon and sent a message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Paul VI visited the Vatican Astronomical Observatory to follow the arrival of the first man on the moon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There, he observed the moon with the the space telescope and followed the landing on television.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, he sent a greeting praising the work of those involved in this project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Very few know, but the astronauts of Apollo 11 left on the moon messages from heads of states. On behalf of Pope Paul VI they brought Psalm 8:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars that you set in place\u2014 What is man that you are mindful of him, and a son of man that you care for him?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ever since, popes and astronauts have often been in contact with each other.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Benedict XVI connected in 2011 with the International Space Station, and had fun seeing the effects of no gravity.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Pope Francis had a similar encounter in 2017.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, he met them at the Vatican. The astronauts brought him a surprise gift: an authentic and personalized space suit.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have decided that to begin with, as you are what you wear, to make you one like ours ...\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAh okay! And you plan the trip for me...\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is a story that all began one night in Castel Gandolfo, when the pope wanted to watch the arrival of the first man on the moon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 19, 2019. The astronauts left a message from the pope, along with other world leaders, on the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kXSgxrhPHhI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapayastronautaseng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapayastronautasint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}