{"id":248167,"date":"2010-01-29T18:14:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a82caf97970b"},"modified":"2010-01-29T18:21:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:21:42","slug":"discarded-apollo-11-items-left-on-the-moon-get-california-historical-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/248167","title":{"rendered":"Discarded Apollo 11 items left on the moon get California historical status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-moon-junk29-2010jan29,0,5698181.story\">100 items<\/a> left behind on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts were named a California historical resource by a state preservation panel today. <\/p>\n<p>The move by the California State Historical Resources Commission is part of a larger effort by scientists to protect what they say are valuable cultural artifacts at Tranquility Base, where man first set foot on the moon\u00a0 July 20, 1969. <\/p>\n<p>Similar efforts are in the works in other states with close ties to the Apollo program in the hopes of building momentum to have the items named a United Nations World Heritage Site. International treaties prohibit nations claiming sovereignty to the moon \u2013 but not to man-made objects that were left there. <\/p>\n<p>Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin jettisoned scientific equipment, tools, empty containers and waste products to lighten the load of the Eagle lunar module for take-off and to account for the weight of moon rocks and soil samples. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Mike Anton in Orange County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 items left behind on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts were named a California historical resource by a state preservation panel today. The move by the California State Historical Resources Commission is part of a larger effort by scientists to protect what they say are valuable cultural artifacts at Tranquility Base, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}