Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Junkyard Owner Saves Lunar Rover Prototype (vice.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-piece-of-junk-for-a-man-one-saved-treasure-for-mankind dept.

An anonymous reader writes: On Tuesday, Slashdot users learned that a man in Alabama sold a lunar rover prototype for scrap metal. We now learn that the junkyard owner has saved this important piece of scientific history. The man claims that, upon receiving the prototype at his scrap facility, he set it aside because he knew exactly what it was.

2 of 130 comments (clear)

  1. After which it was taken to Las Vegas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where Rick offered 500 bucks for it, Big Hoss asked whether the moon landing was faked, the old man mentioned the Navy and Chum sat on it.

  2. Re: On Monday by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    whooooosshh. You must be from Mississippi.