{"id":293269,"date":"2023-12-31T16:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T15:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293269"},"modified":"2023-12-31T16:18:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T15:18:51","slug":"decolonizing-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=293269","title":{"rendered":"Decolonizing the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00a0From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story from KNAU Arizona Public Radio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Navajo Nation president asks NASA to delay Moon launch over possible human remains<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren has asked NASA to delay a scheduled launch to the Moon that could include cremated remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nygren says he recently learned of the Jan. 8 launch of the Vulcan Centaur carrying the Peregrine Mission One. The lander will carry some payloads from a company known to provide memorial services by shipping human cremated remains to the Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nygren wants the launch delayed and the tribe consulted immediately. He noted the Moon is sacred to numerous Indigenous cultures and that depositing human remains on it is \u201ctantamount to desecration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.knau.org\/knau-and-arizona-news\/2023-12-28\/navajo-nation-president-asks-nasa-to-delay-moon-launch-over-possible-human-remains<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis memorandum reinforced the commitment to Executive Order 13175 of November 6, 2000,\u201d President Nygren wrote. \u201cAdditionally, the Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Interagency Coordination and Collaboration for the Protection of Indigenous Sacred Sites, which you and several other members of the Administration signed in November 2021, further underscores the requirement for such consultation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added this explicitly recognizes that sacred sites can consist of \u201cplaces that afford views of important areas of land, water, or of the sky and celestial bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA has yet to respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.knau.org\/knau-and-arizona-news\/2023-12-28\/navajo-nation-president-asks-nasa-to-delay-moon-launch-over-possible-human-remains<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Read the complete story at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.knau.org\/knau-and-arizona-news\/2023-12-28\/navajo-nation-president-asks-nasa-to-delay-moon-launch-over-possible-human-remains<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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