Burying things is a lot harder than just dropping them in place. Normally you'd pour a concrete foundation for something like this, so you'd be doing some excavation work anyway, but on the moon there's no need for a foundation because there's no wind.
> no need for a foundation
Moonquakes do seem to occur, and although they're not as damaging as earthquakes I wonder if they're still something that engineers need to worry about.
The limited experience we have with digging on the moon suggests when you get past the initial few centimeters of dust, it is hard as a rock.
They could drop a payload of 3310's from orbit.
We don't want to break the moon in half now, c'mon.