re: Anybody know if the space program is offensive to the Prophet?
Supposedly the Moon is sacred to Muslims and landing spaceships there and walking on is probably a desecration.
Certain Native Americans also consider the Moon to be a sacred place. They were upset when we put Eugene Shoemaker's ashes on it in 1998 with Lunar Prospector.
And of course there was the guy who said he owned Eros - naturally when we started exploring it with NEAR. And the Russian astrologer who said that hitting Comet Tempel 1 with Deep Impact would misalign the Cosmos.
Thank Zeus the Universe as a whole doesn't give a flying fig about the noises from the tiny talking monkeys of Sol 3.