Apollo 8 Bible Lawsuit Failed

After the Apollo 8 astronauts read from Genesis during a 1968 broadcast from lunar orbit, American atheist activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair sued NASA. She argued that government-employed astronauts should not conduct public Bible readings during spaceflights. In 1970, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed her appeal for lack of jurisdiction in orbit around the moon.

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