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Apollo landers, Neil Armstrong's bootprint and other human artifacts on Moon officially protected by new US law

  • Written by Michelle L.D. Hanlon, Professor of Air and Space Law, University of Mississippi
Apollo landers, Neil Armstrong's bootprint and other human artifacts on Moon officially protected by new US lawThese astronaut footprints on the Moon aren't protected yet.NASA

It’s hard to care about bootprints sunk in soil 238,900 miles away as humanity suffers the combined burden of an unforgiving virus and a political unease. But how humans treat those bootprints and the historic lunar landing sites upon which they are found will speak volumes...

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