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.html