One such crater, named Shoemaker, is 51 miles (32 km) wide and resides east of the lunar south pole at 88.1° south latitude. Its antiquity is manifested in a heavily worn rim and dozens of tiny ...

Celestis, which recently conducted a mission from California, will send cremated remains or human DNA to outer space for ...

The Lunar Prospector spacecraft, during its 18-month orbit around the moon, gathered crucial data and imagery. ... 1999, deliberately crashing it onto the lunar surface, carrying Eugene Shoemaker.

Lunar Prospector, the probe that transported Shoemaker’s ashes to the moon/Image: public domain on Wikimedia Commons. He was intellectually precocious – he also played the violin – so, after finishing ...

A few days after the lunar prospector carrying Shoemaker’s ashes was launched, Albert Hale, then the president of Navajo Nation, spoke out against the plan to eventually leave the prospector ...

Twenty-eight grams (1 ounce) of Shoemaker's ashes were sent on board NASA's Lunar Prospector, inside a small vacuum-sealed polycarbonate capsule. Around the capsule was a passage from William ...

In 1998, NASA's Lunar Prospector mission launched with a small capsule containing the ashes of Eugene Shoemaker, ...

NASA pledged to consult in the future after an outcry from the Navajo when, 20 years ago, it carried some of Eugene Shoemaker’s ashes to the Moon aboard the Lunar Prospector probe.

- Human ashes: NASA's Lunar Prospector probe carried astronaut Eugene M. Shoemaker's ashes to the moon in a protected capsule in 1999.

During the 1999 Lunar Prospector mission, NASA intentionally crash-landed a spacecraft on the moon, carrying the cremated remains of scientist Eugene Shoemaker, who founded astrogeology and is the ...