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July 12, 2013 06:42 pm GMT

Can We Put a National Park on the Moon?

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Two House Democrats pitched legislation this week that would establish a national park on the moon

Reps. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) proposed creating the Apollo Lunar Landing Sites National Historic Park to safeguard the artifacts left behind from NASA's Apollo missions 11 through 17.

"The Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act will ensure that the scientific data and cultural significance of the Apollo artifacts remains unharmed by future lunar landings," Rep. Edwards said in her introduction of the bill. "This Act will endow the artifacts as a National Historic Park, thereby asserting unquestioned ownership rights over the Apollo lunar landing artifacts."

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