Dallas Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has proposed to create a national historic park on moon to protect the artifacts left on moon by Apollo.

The plans to create a national park on the moon have been put forward by Mr. Johnson and a fellow Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards. In a statement on Tuesday, Edwards said that creation of the park will make sure that future lunar mission may not harm the Apollo artifacts.

This is why they have been proposing the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act. They said that it is necessary that the scientific data and cultural significance of the Apollo artifacts remains intact. According to them, the park would help in protecting artifacts left by the seven lunar missions.

However, it is learnt that the bill may interfere with the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. Signed by the U. S. and Soviet Union, it states that the space objects will always remain the property of the country that launched them.

But it emerged that the proposal wants the components I the park to be only the one launched by NASA. According to it the landings sites to be considered will be "all areas of the Moon where astronauts and instruments connected to the Apollo program between 1969 and 1972 touched the lunar surface".