Pro-life and religious groups will ultimately feel that the bank signals the start of a commodification of human life and that the special status granted to human embryonic material - the requirement that it should be used only for research that would lead to the creation of life - has now changed.
But a Johnson Space Center source who asked not to be identified said there's a sufficient amount of lunar material on which scientific analysis has been completed to satisfy the requirement the transfer would not compromise such studies.
There was also no requirement for the auditor to give its opinion on whether the bank had fully corrected the material weakness in internal controls related to the valuation process until 2012 year-end.