Space archaeology

US Bill mandating that the Apollo 11 lunar landing site will be a US national park and submitted to UNESCO for designation as a World Heritage Site. Introduced July 2013.


“The cultural heritage of space, the Moon and other celestial bodies” by Beth Laura O'Leary in Antiquity Vol 80 No 307, March 2006


“Where No Flag Has Gone Before: Political and Technical Aspects of Placing a Flag on the Moon”  by Anne Platoff, August 1993 (NASA Contractor Report 188251)

This is only indirectly connected to archaeology. I mention it because the US flag on the Moon is an embarrassment to those who wish the US to promote a conservation park there. (Though the flag is now bleached pure white, so that mitigates the embarrassment I suppose.)
 

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