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The U.S. Doesn't Want Anyone Messing With the Apollo Landing Sites
A new rush of companies and countries headed to the moon has the U.S. considering the best ways to preserve its historical lunar landmarks.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a19576001/preserve-apollo-landing-sites/
Nations, space companies, and even private citizens have big plans to colonize the Moon. But this reinvigorated focus on our nearest celestial neighbor have some worried that this mad dash could destroy historical lunar landmarks.
Yesterday, The White House issued a report calling for ways to protect Apollo-era landing sites, calling them rich in scientific and historical significance. Congress mandated the report in the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017. Damage from exhaust blasts of nearby spacecraft, biological contamination, and the obliteration of tracks in the regolith are all concerns.
The report:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-conte...Program-Lunar-Landing-Sites-and-Artifacts.pdf
A new rush of companies and countries headed to the moon has the U.S. considering the best ways to preserve its historical lunar landmarks.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a19576001/preserve-apollo-landing-sites/
Nations, space companies, and even private citizens have big plans to colonize the Moon. But this reinvigorated focus on our nearest celestial neighbor have some worried that this mad dash could destroy historical lunar landmarks.
Yesterday, The White House issued a report calling for ways to protect Apollo-era landing sites, calling them rich in scientific and historical significance. Congress mandated the report in the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017. Damage from exhaust blasts of nearby spacecraft, biological contamination, and the obliteration of tracks in the regolith are all concerns.
The report:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-conte...Program-Lunar-Landing-Sites-and-Artifacts.pdf