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- Title
Preserving the Moon.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the implication of space programs of National Aeronautics and Science Administration (NASA) and other countries in landing on the moon to establish bases. It notes that the bases will try to live off the land as much as possible to avoid bringing supplies up from earth. It mentions that the establishment of bases to the moon will mean massive strip mining. It forecasts that the time will come that the moon will become quite messy even if restoration or reclamation of some kind will be attempted. It points out that tourism may also become a scenic problem as the footprints and debris left by the tourists mix with the original footprints and debris from the astronauts at the sites of landing.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LUNAR exploration; LUNAR bases; SPACE flight to the moon; LUNAR landing sites; AERONAUTICAL flights; SPACE flight; SPACE stations; ASTRONAUTICS; UNITED States. National Aeronautics &; Space Administration
- Publication
Environmental Ethics, 2009, Vol 31, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0163-4275
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/enviroethics20093112