Erin Conroy on Nostr: The ashes of one man were put on the moon in 1998 in the most ad hoc, maudlin, & ...
The ashes of one man were put on the moon in 1998 in the most ad hoc, maudlin, & intemperate fashion possible (& definitely without any consultation with any Native Nations or any process at all):
"Porco's striking thought ignited a rapid-fire e-mail exchange on July 19, [the day after Shoemaker was killed in an auto accident]. Because there was so little time until Lunar Prospector launch," they asked his widow on Sunday July 20th, "when she was just out of surgery."
https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/news82.htmlPublished at
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