Thursday, July 11, 2013

Apollo National Park?

A bill has been introduced in Congress that would make the Apollo lunar landing sites protected U. S. national park territory.

Under international law, those sites are not owned by the United States-- nations are prohibited from claiming sovereignty over all or parts of celestial bodies, which is why Apollo astronauts didn't claim the Moon as American territory when they planted the flag-- so how non- U.S. territory could be U. S. national parks is unclear.  Congress probably has better things to do than open another optional can of worms.

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