This story truncates the quote from Nygren:<p>> “It is crucial to emphasize that the moon holds a sacred position in many Indigenous cultures, including ours. We view it as a part of our spiritual heritage, an object of reverence and respect. The act of depositing human remains and other materials, which could be perceived as discards in any other location, on the Moon is tantamount to desecration of this sacred space.”<p>It also sounds like the more straightforward and avoidable issue is that NASA and the federal government both pledged, decades ago and again recently, to at least consult with the tribe on similar missions and then broke that promise. (cf. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090108193621/http://amarillo.com/stories/011498/LG3057.002.shtml" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20090108193621/http://amarillo.c...</a>)