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Elizabeth Howell

Archaeology on the moon: How to preserve spaceflight artifacts from Apollo era

astronaut in a spacesuit squatting nearby a cylindrical-shaped experiment. to the right is the lunar rover. the scene is on the moon and cross shapes mark the image

What do we do with the pieces of Apollo moon missions, or other bits of human technology scattered around the solar system?

As NASA and other entities plan to put humans on the moon again later in the 2020s, a new study suggests we should see what changes the lunar environment causes on human artifacts left on the surface, with an eye to preserving what is possible: Spacecraft, experiments, trash and other things.

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