Technology Helps Pope Extend Reach Into Space

22.05.2011

Pope Paul VI sent then-U.S. President Richard Nixon a telegram, parts of which Nixon read to the crew.

Pope Clement VII would have applauded his successors' actions.

Clement was pontiff when Copernicus first suggested a heliocentric universe. , Clement VII was so pleased to have the theories explained to him by his secretary that he gave him a gift as a reward.