When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon in 1969, before Armstrong took his famous first steps, Aldrin sipped the first liquid ever consumed on the lunar surface – wine. This was part of a communion ceremony Aldrin performed as a way of giving thanks for a successful mission. He later described the event:

“I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup.”

NASA chose not to broadcast the event due to its religious nature, rather than to conceal the fact that Aldrin had brought wine with him. But the principle of taking alcohol to space roused strong objections on later missions. Afterall, astronauts need all their wits about them when operating billion-dollar spacecraft.