Nadia Drake says Moon landing sites lack legal protection as missions grow

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""right now there's no legal protection for any of those sites. And so it's really just a question of behavioral norms, whether you're going to go in and mess with them or if you're going to respect what's there and treat it like an archaeological site.""

Nadia Drake says there is currently no legal protection for lunar landing sites and their artefacts. She describes items ranging from Apollo hardware to more recent Russian and Chinese equipment, plus fragile traces such as bootprints and personal mementoes. Drake argues preservation therefore depends largely on voluntary behavioural norms as more state and commercial missions head to the Moon.