Wedi glanio’n ddiogel ar y lleuad, y dydd heddiw yn 1969, bu oedi am ychydig oriau cyn i Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) gamu allan o’r llong ofod ‘Apollo 11’, a’i draed yn sangu llwch y lleuad. 20 munud wedyn daeth Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin (g.1930) i ymuno ag Armstrong. Yn ddiweddarach, cofnododd Aldrin yr hyn a ddigwyddodd yn ystod yr ychydig funudau rheini:

There are many thousands of things that God and man have made here on earth and, before I blasted off, I got thinking and wondering what I would choose to take to the moon. So I said: What’s our greatest treasure here on earth? And I thought: It’s Christ’s gift of himself. So, shortly after touchdown, I opened two little plastic packages; one containing bread and the other, wine. I poured the wine into the chalice which our home church had given me, and I read what Saint John tells us that Jesus said: ‘I am the vine, you are the branches.’ In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon and the very first food eaten there were what Christ chose when he gave himself to be our close friend.

(0LlE)