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Huh? The Wikipedia article you linked puts the moon into > Unrestricted Category V: “Earth-return missions from bodies deemed by scientific opinion to have no
by skosch 7y ago
Huh? The Wikipedia article you linked puts the moon into
> Unrestricted Category V: “Earth-return missions from bodies deemed by scientific opinion to have no indigenous life forms.”
- Someone 7y agoAccording that Wikipedia page, COSPAR defined two categorization systems, one for missions, one for celestial bodies. In their ‘wisdom’, they decided to use Roman numerals I through V for both. Missions to the moon fall in mission category II, but the moon itself falls in target category V (more precisely unrestricted category V)