Submission + - California To Protect Apollo 11 Space Junk (latimes.com) 2
jcgam69 writes: The surface of the moon may contain Neil Armstrong's famous footstep from his 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, but the site at Tranquility Base also houses more than 5,000 pounds of junk left over from the trip, and California historians now want to stick a flag in that. If all goes well at a meeting in Sacramento today, California could become the first state to register the items at Tranquility Base—which include a U.S. flag, bags of human waste, and the ship's lunar module descent stage—as a State Historical Resource.
