You can pay to have your ashes buried on the moon. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should
- Written by Carol Oliver, Professor in Science Communication and Astrobiology, UNSW Sydney
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.
The Peregrine lander (which completed...