Moon Rocket Scrubbed and Blown Dry 305
loid_void writes "Reutersis is reporting that a giant Apollo moon rocket that never got off the ground is about to get a face-lift after years of rusting away in the Texas heat and humidity at the Johnson Space Center.
Workers will construct a shelter for the Saturn V rocket and give it the equivalent of a "blow dry" in the first steps to preserve the relic of NASA's golden age, said Allan Needell, Apollo program curator for the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.
The 363-foot-long behemoth has lain on its side in front of JSC since 1977, a favorite sight of tourists, but also a victim of the elements.
Instead of launching astronauts to the moon as it was built to do, it has become a slowly fading hulk of peeling paint and corroded metal where birds live and plants sprout, Needell said on Wednesday during a visit to the rocket.
"There's a lot of biology growing on there," he said, pointing out streaks of algae staining the rocket's white skin."
Jump back! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hrm... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:NASA's golden age? (Score:5, Funny)
Let's make it into a diner! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hrm... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:hrm... (Score:4, Funny)
These days, it's more like
...
Step 4: Get taken to Guantanamo Bay
Step 5: ????
Step 6: ????
Step 7: ????
Step 8: ????
Step 9: ????
Re:Sink it as an artificial reef? (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Novel use for old rocket (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Kansas Cosmosphere (Score:5, Funny)
Having suffered through several cross-Kansas drives during Summer vacation trips as a kid, I can tell you there is just about nothing *but* space in Kansas.
Plastic (Score:2, Funny)
Thank God? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Jump back! (Score:4, Funny)
insert obligatory dagblamint gubmint statement (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sink it as an artificial reef? (Score:3, Funny)
Someone has to say it... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:hrm... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My goodness.... (Score:3, Funny)