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Saturn V Fallen on Hard Times

Posted by michael on Friday January 16, 2004 @10:17PM from the up-up-and-away dept.

n9fzx writes "The best remaining artifact of the Apollo Program, Huntsville's Saturn V, is 'pocked with pits and cracks, and patches of mold and mildew', having survived for forty years outdoors. Alabama's U.S. Space and Rocket Center is trying to raise a measly $5 million in order to preserve the beast, with $1.5 million in the kitty so far. Paypal, anyone?"

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For $5 million bucks... by Op7imus_Prim3 · 2004-01-16 22:32 · Score: 4, Funny

Hell, I could build my own themepark on the moon! With hookers, and blackjack! Forget the blackjack.

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Re:Use the money elsewhere?!? by bsartist · 2004-01-17 00:09 · Score: 4, Funny

geeks/engeneers really will find a way to disagree with anything just for the sake of argument.

No we dont. ;-)

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Obvious solution... by pieterh · 2004-01-17 00:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Cut the damn thing into hand-sized pieces, seal in plastic bags, sell them for $25 a piece and use the proceeds to send Carly to Mars on a one-way mission to sign outsourcing contracts with the Martians.

Damn, my living room museum needs a brick from the Berlin Wall, a chunk of the Biggest Rocket Ever Built, and a single hard-copy SCO share to go along with my original mint-condition 20-diskette pack of IBM's OS/2 (which never flew, either).

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Auction it off by xtermin8 · 2004-01-17 02:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Ebay anyone?