US Presidential Law to protect Lunar Heritage Sites • Spaceleaks

The new legislation will protect heritage sites on the Moon like the Apollo 11 landing site.

The bill applies only to NASA’s partnership agreements with companies to conduct lunar activities (not to companies licensed to conduct lunar activities), and the applicants to licenses for lunar activities will have to follow the 2011 report “NASA’s Recommendations to Space-Faring Entities: How to Protect and Preserve the Historic and Scientific Value of U.S. Government Lunar Artifacts.”

The bill does not create any additional regulatory authority but NASA will be required to add the 2011 recommendations “as a condition or requirement to contracts, grants, agreements and partnerships or other arrangements pertaining to lunar activities carried out by, for, or in partnership” with NASA.

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