You can pay to have your ashes buried on the moon. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should

An illustration of a metallic lander on the moon.

When NASA attempted to return to the Moon for the first time in 50 years on January 8, more was at risk than just US$108 million worth of development and equipment.

The agency earned the ire of the Native American Navajo people, who made a bid to stop the launch because of an unusual inclusion in the payload.