Moon burials?

Geologist Eugene Shoemaker’s ashes were sent to the moon on NASA’s Lunar Prospector spacecraft in 1998. He became the first person to be buried on another world. Shoemaker co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and contributed to the field of planetary science. His ashes were packaged in a capsule with an engraved image of comet Hale-Bopp and […]

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