In response to concerns raised by the Navajo Nation on treating the Moon as a grave, NASA has a unique opportunity to advance the conversation with Indigenous communities regarding how we interact with space environments, and who gets to decide.
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Tavares, F., Vidaurri, M., Denton, A. et al. A call for Indigenous partnership in the return to the Moon. Nat Astron 8, 400–402 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02251-6
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