Moon Museum: New Race to Save Space Relics


	Moon Museum: New Race to Save Space Relics

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7-25-2008 3:42 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9a2cf5a9-0d2e-4206-8a32-53f136f686d2/DA812652-4CF6-483D-AD5E-D7B68D471B44/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080725-google-xprize.html" href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080725-google-xprize.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080725-google-xprize.html"><SPAN>MOUNTAIN
VIEW, California — The moon is sprinkled with historical hardware hurled from
Earth that signifies the pioneering steps taken over decades in robotic and
human exploration of Earth's celestial next-door neighbor.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080725-google-xprize.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/58C55D77-E3C4-43CE-8106-E39725198350" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080725-google-xprize.html"><SPAN>But numbers
of spacefaring nations, including commercial enterprises, are readying their
respective assaults on the moon. That fact has sparked growing concern about
safeguarding lunar heritage sites, keeping them free of future "Kilroy was
here" graffiti-like abuses.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080725-google-xprize.html"><SPAN>This issue
was aired at the NASA Lunar Science Conference staged here July 20-23 by the
new NASA Lunar Science Institute situated at the space agency's Ames Research
Center.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080725-google-xprize.html">"The
Apollo sites are, in fact, historic. They are treasures that need to be
preserved," said noted author and authority on space exploration Andrew
Chaikin. His books include the acclaimed "A Man on the Moon" (Viking,
1994), the impetus for the Tom Hanks HBO television miniseries, <I><A href="http://www.space.com/entertainment/050923_ent_earthtomoon.html">From the
Earth to the Moon</A></I>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DA812652-4CF6-483D-AD5E-D7B68D471B44/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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