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Mr. Johnson is daft. There is nothing on the moon but footprints, left over trash and rover tracks. If Mr. Johnson wants to propose a national park he needs to do it where citizens actually can participate and enjoy it. This is such nonsense they pull.
Then after hearing this mess we actually expect children and young people to take their learning seriously.
July 13, 2013
Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson’s (click here) latest bill is out of this world.
Johnson, along with Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., introduced a bill this week that would designate a national park on the moon.
It would mark the landing of 11 Apollo missions since 1969, which the bill calls “one of the 10 greatest achievements in American history.”
The park would be called the Apollo Lunar Landing Sites National Historical Park, of course, and be established within one year.
The purpose of designating the space, the bill states, is to “improve public understanding of the Apollo program and its legacy,” as well as protecting lunar artifacts leftover from the missions.
Humans have not traveled to the moon in more than four decades.
Johnson, an active proponent of science funding and programs, was the first female ranking member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
