Astronauts, cosmonauts, and space participants have observed their religion while in outer space; sometimes openly, sometimes privately. Religious adherence in outer space presents unique challenges and opportunities for practitioners. Space tourists have reported major changes in the way they view their beliefs related to the effects of the overview, while some secular groups criticize the use of government spaceships for religious activities by astronauts.
Video Religion in space
Apollo 8 Genesis Records
On Christmas Eve, 1968 astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman read from the Book of Genesis as Apollo 8 orbiting the Moon. The lawsuit by the American Atheist founder, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, alleged that obedience was as big as government support for religion that violated the First Amendment, but the case was rejected.
Maps Religion in space
Christianity
In the STS-128 astronaut, Patrick Forrester carried a fragment of the Missionary Aviation Fellowship plane that crashed in Ecuador in 1956.
Protestantism
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, a Presbyterian, conducts fellowship meetings for himself using the equipment provided by his church. Aldrin has told flight director Chris Kraft of his plans and intends to broadcast the service back to Earth but chose not to at the request of Deke Slayton, due to the ongoing controversy over Apollo 8 readings.
A Biblical microfilm that had reached the surface of the Moon was auctioned off in 2011. It was the King James Version that was made after three astronauts lost their lives in the Apollo fire 1. Ed White, one of the dead astronauts, wanted to bring the Bible to the Moon.
Roman Catholic
The message signed by Pope Paul VI was among the statements of dozens of other world leaders left on the moon on silicon disks during the Apollo 11 mission. Following the mission of William Donald Borders, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Orlando, told the Pope that the Kanon Act of the year 1917 puts the moon within its diocese, when the first explorers had departed from Cape Kennedy under its jurisdiction.
In May 2011, Pope Benedict XVI of the Catholic Church spoke with the crew of the Endeavor when he was in Earth's orbit.
Russian Orthodox
The Russian Orthodox Christmas celebrated at the International Space Station, on January 7, 2011. Kosmonot went on a holiday, but one of the other crew tweeted, "Merry Christmas to all Russia." The entire crew also celebrated on December 25, two weeks earlier.
Islam
Muslims in the space of struggle by fulfilling their religious obligations include kneeling and facing Mecca to pray on a micro-journey at several kilometers per second. This problem first arose when Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a Saudi prince, flew over STS-51-G and again when Anousheh Ansari flew as a tourist to the International space station. In preparation for Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Malaysia's journey to the ISS in 2007, the National Fatwa Council created a "Muslim Obligation on the International Space Station" which outlines permitted modifications to rituals such as kneeling when praying (not needed in outer space), facing Mecca while praying (depart to astronaut best ability at the beginning of prayer), and wash (wet towel will be enough).
In February 2014, the General Authority for Islamic Affairs and Endowments (GAIAE) issued a fatwa prohibiting devout Muslims from participating as crew members on the mission of a Mars mission to Mars. Speaking for the clerical group, Farooq Hamada explains that, "Protecting life from all possible dangers and keeping it safe is a matter agreed upon by all religions and clearly set forth in verses 4/29 of the Qur'an: Do not commit suicide or one another Allah is Most Merciful unto you. "
Judaism
Examples of Judaism in space occurred in 2003, when a Torah microfilm and a written copy of the Shabbat kiddhats were brought into orbit by Ilan Ramon.
See also
- List of religious ideas in science fiction
References
External links
- Doing Worship at the International Space Station '
- Christmas in Heaven (NASA, 2003)
- Christmas in Space (DLR, 2011)
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