NASA asks future moon explorers to keep away from Apollo landing site

[Locutus]

Don’t say you haven’t been warned. NASA put out an official document today specifying how close any future spacecraft and astronauts visiting the Moon can come to the artifacts left on the lunar surface by all US space missions, including the Apollo landing sites, any robotic landing sites like Surveyor and impact sites like LCROSS.

While these recommendations are not mandatory (there’s obviously no way to enforce this yet) the document states, “rather, it is offered to inform lunar spacecraft mission planners interested in helping preserve and protect lunar historic artifacts and potential science opportunities for future missions.”

For example, NASA recommends an artifact boundary extending 75 m from the Apollo 11 lunar module descent stage.


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NASA asks future moon explorers to keep away from Apollo landing site - CSMonitor.com

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

In case somebody goes to the site and finds nothing there?

I believe the landings happened but what a way to send the tin foil hat crowd into a tizzy.

 

[spaminator]

In case somebody goes to the site and finds nothing there?

I believe the landings happened but what a way to send the tin foil hat crowd into a tizzy.

either that or they don't want the lunar pyramids to be seen.

 

[lone wolf]

Measure dust accumulation? Future historic site? Who knows ... but if anyone wants to photograph artifacts, if they haven't the technology to do it from 75m away, they probably don't have the technology to get there anyhow.

 

[SLM]

either that or they don't want the lunar pyramids to be seen.

No, it's just because if they get too close they're going to see the monolith, lol.

Little known fact, while Kubrick 'faked' the actual moon landing, he filmed the beginning of 2001 on the actual moon's surface. Weird eh?