Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander carried 151 Moon Boxes into space last year, as well as the ashes of dozens of some 70 people.
(Photo by SpaceX via Getty Images)] This is quite different from the first mission to the Moon, although it would be one giant leap for commercial packaging services.
All the weird junk we’re sending to the Moon on purpose Space exploration should be for all countries and for the benefit of all mankind.
He thinks this kind of commercialisation of space is moving away from the founding principles of space exploration.
Space junk has been a concern for a while, with so many old satellites, pieces of rocket, and even Elon Musk’s car orbiting up there that there’s a risk of collisions, or interference with scientific observations.
