{"id":90803,"date":"2019-07-22T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=90803"},"modified":"2019-07-22T17:29:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T22:29:15","slug":"time-um-law-professor-space-expert-featured-moons-historic-site-fight-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/time-um-law-professor-space-expert-featured-moons-historic-site-fight-article\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME: UM Law Professor, Space Expert Featured in Moon’s Historic Site Fight Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘We Need That Boot Print.’ Inside the Fight to Save the Moon’s Historic Sites Before It’s Too Late<\/a><\/p>\n

By Currie Engel\/TIME<\/em><\/p>\n

Half a century after humankind first walked on the moon, our sole natural satellite is becoming a much busier place. NASA wants to make a return trip, as do private American space companies like Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX. China has a rover exploring the far side of the moon, while countries from Israel to Russia are planning lunar missions of their own.<\/p>\n

All that traffic has some experts worried about what might happen to the moon\u2019s most historic sites. In part because the moon has no weather to speak of, artifacts left there tend to be well-preserved. If you visited the moon today, you could find everything from the three \u201cmoon buggies\u201d that NASA astronauts left behind to Neil Armstrong\u2019s footprints at Tranquility Base. But those sites and artifacts could still be disturbed by a careless visitor, like an off-roading truck ripping up a pristine beach.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can go up there and run over those boot prints or those rubber tracks with impunity,\u201d says Michelle Hanlon, an air and space law instructor at the University of Mississippi. Hanlon is a co-founder of For All Moonkind, a non-profit that seeks to protect what she calls important \u201chuman heritage\u201d sites and artifacts in outer space.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need [Armstrong\u2019s] boot print to remind us of how amazing it is that we got there,\u201d says Hanlon, who became a space lawyer after her sons sparked an interest in the cosmos. \u201cAnd to be inspired by that to do even more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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