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July 18, 2019

'We need a habitat on the moon,' says former NASA flight director

Flight director Gene Kranz is seen seated at his console in the mission operations control room in the Manned Spacecraft Center's Mission Control Center in Houston the launch of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission July 16, 1969. Partially visible in the background is flight director Gerald D. Griffin. Kranz is a parishioner at Shrine of the True Cross Catholic Church in Dickinson, Texas, near Houston.

HOUSTON -- Upcoming space travel plans need to include living on the moon, similar to scientific habitats in the Arctic and Antarctica, said Gene Kranz, NASA's former flight director.

Published in Faith
July 18, 2019

Moon landing inspired a country and a career in aerospace engineering

Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed U.S. flag during an Apollo 11 extra-vehicular activity on the lunar surface July 20, 1969.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Retired Maj. Gen. Mike Wiedemer was an aerospace engineering and ROTC student at the University of Notre Dame in July 1969 when Apollo 11 launched and Neil Armstrong took a "giant leap for mankind" by becoming the first man to walk on the moon.

Published in Faith
July 18, 2019

Astronauts found God in space

This interior view of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module shows astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, lunar module pilot, during the lunar landing mission July 20, 1969. This picture was taken by astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander.

I didn't realize there was a moon-landing Bible verse until my pastor mentioned it a few weeks ago.

Published in Faith
July 17, 2019

Being curator of meteorites allows Jesuit to 'find God' in all things

Jesuit Brother Bob Macke and Jesuit Father Gabriele Gionti, an astronomer, prepare to give journalists a tour of the Vatican Observatory at the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Sept. 28, 2018. Brother Macke said that by studying the universe, "we can better appreciate the God who created it."

HOUSTON -- At the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo near Rome, Jesuit Brother Robert Macke finds his work as the curator of meteorites for the Vatican Observatory -- formally founded in 1891 by Pope Leo XIII -- allows him to, as the Jesuit saying goes, "find God in all things."

Published in Vatican
July 12, 2019

Editorial: God’s grace in space

The moon sets behind a mountain at sunrise in Lake Louise, Alta.

The 50th anniversary of the first moon landing salutes a towering human achievement, but it should also be a call to contemplate our place in God’s creation.

Published in Editorial
July 12, 2019

Beyond the moonlight: Faith written in the stars

Pope Paul VI watches the moon landing on television at the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo, Italy.

Jesuit Fr. Adam Hincks does not remember the excitement, the mind-expanding fascination or the must-watch-TV coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. He was born in 1982.

Published in Features