Alabama Man Sold a Priceless Apollo-Era Lunar Rover Protoype For Scrap Metal (vice.com)

Jason Koebler writes: An Alabama man allowed an Apollo-era lunar rover prototype to rot in his backyard before ultimately selling it to a junkyard for scrap metal last year, according to documents acquired from NASA as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. NASA spent much of 2014 attempting to acquire the priceless artifact for display in a museum, but it was ultimately destroyed before the agency could recover it.

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Re:More relevant title

[Krishnoid]

I'd immediately know the call was fake. Now if it went, "Hey, this is Hollywood. We heard you have one of our rovers from the moon landing movie, and would like to buy it back ..."

Re:Rocket City Rednecks?

[PopeRatzo]

Huntsville Alabama is where they hid Von Braun so he wouldn't get lynched.

They chose Huntsville because a nazi wouldn't stick out.