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NASA To Future Lunar Explorers: Don't Mess With Our Moon Stuff

Posted by timothy on from the why-didn't-you-bring-enough-for-the-entire-class? dept.

coondoggie writes "NASA today gently reminded any future Moon explorers that any relics of its Apollo missions or other U.S. lunar artifacts should be off limits and are considered historic sites. NASA issued the reminder in conjunction with the X Prize Foundation and its Google Lunar X Prize competition which will use NASA's Moon sites guidelines as it sifts through the 26 teams currently developing systems and spacecraft to land on the Moon."

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  1. Or what? by crazyjj · · Score: 5, Funny

    You gonna come up here and get us, NASA?

    Yeah, I didn't THINK so.

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    1. Re:Or what? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

      We shall send you a very sternly worded letter, sir.

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    2. Re:Or what? by heypete · · Score: 4, Funny

      What, like "US Citizen traveling overseas for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity with a spacecraft"?

      That's one hell of a kink...

    3. Re:Or what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      What, you're not gonna add big exhaust pipes and maybe rice it out a little?

      Pussy.

    4. Re:Or what? by wiedzmin · · Score: 5, Funny

      To be fair, they're the only ones who've ever done it...

      Allegedly.

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    5. Re:Or what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'd love to see the look on the sergeant's face when Spacey Guthrie is there sitting on the Group W bench, recounting the story of the 8x10 glossy holographs and Alice's Orbital Restaurant Massacre, in full orchestration and four part harmony.

  2. Let the fun and games begin by ribuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    Heh, it would be quite a coup for a less-than-friendly space-faring nation to bring back to earth the Apollo 11 lunar lander (descent stage) as a "trophy"!

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    1. Re:Let the fun and games begin by david.given · · Score: 5, Funny

      Good luck getting an extra 22,000 lbs of metal off the moon and back to earth in one piece.

      SpaceX will never develop the technology to do that.

      Their vehicles only lift kilograms.

  3. Flag by Russ1642 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anybody up for an epic game of capture the flag?

  4. The moon Nazi pilfered it already by zerosomething · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't you know. http://www.ironsky.net/site/ Geeze

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