Beth O’Leary is a professor at New Mexico State University. Miz O’Leary is a supporter of honoring space heritage. She expresses concern that people traveling in space might someday damage the spaceflight objects.

At the moment, however, that threat does not seem immediate. A budget proposal by President Obama cancels the American space agency’s plans for manned spaceflights to a lunar station. At least for awhile, historic objects on the moon remain far away and safe from human hands.

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