It’s a technological feat easily on par with Egypt’s pyramids, the Great Wall or Stonehenge — but how should the Apollo 11 mission site and others be preserved and protected for future generations?
Right now, the bootprints, rovers and hundreds of other artifacts from the Apollo missions are not protected like heritage sites are on Earth — something a small but growing number of space archaeologists want to change.
“These seminal imprints, they’re not set in stone, they’re set in dust. If they’re not preserved — either by having a cover put over them or by declaring a national park…
